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Purchases by people barred from buying guns skyrocketed in 2020 Graham Kates © Getty/iStockphoto Generic gun An unprecedented number of people who are legally barred from owning guns managed to buy them in 2020 through the so-called "Charleston loophole," according to data obtained by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The "loophole" allows gun dealers to complete sales after three days if a buyer's background check has not been completed by the FBI. If the agency later determines that the buyer should not have been allowed to get the gun, it refers the case to th...

Organization Advocating Against Gun Violence Launches Book Club By Claire Kirch | Feb 03, 2021 Everytown for Gun Safety, through its Moms Demand Action grassroots arm, has launched the Moms Demand Action Book Club, a discussion group open to the organization’s six million supporters who advocate against gun violence via their state chapters. “This is a new opportunity for volunteers to engage with one another on issues that intersect with gun violence,” noted Shannon Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action on Facebook in 2012. “People are looking for ways to conn...