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Maura Intemann/Amanda - stock.adobe.com Another round of mass public murders has put gun safety back on the national agenda. On Thursday, President Biden pledged determination without surcease — while announcing several relatively minor measures. Speaking in the Rose Garden, the president said he had ordered the Department of Justice to devise a way to crack down on un-serial-numbered “ghost” guns that can be bought without background checks and assembled from kits or 3-D printers, and to further regulate stabilizing braces that effectively turn pistols into short-barrel rifles...

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Published: 2/1/2021 8:55:54 AM In 1976, Paul Piquette was a graphic arts student at Springfield Technical Community College, paying for his education through a job at the Springfield-based Smith & Wesson firearms manufacturing company while doing portraits on the side. While the job was seemingly unrelated to his artistic interests, it became a jumping point for his nearly five-decades-long career as a master hand engraver. Piquette has spent the last 20 years in this craft on the staff of MurDuff’s Jewelry Store in Florence. When Piquette took the job at Smith & Wesson, he did not realize...