State Farm insurance will not offer insurance to gun owners or manufacturers. State Farm does not insure any type of manufacturing business, including firearms. State Farm does have insurance policies applicable to gun owners. Though some gun owners have accused State Farm insurance online of not being a “good neighbor” toward them, two claims — […]
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© Greg Nash Retiring Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) criticized the National Rifle Association (NRA) for refusing to accept “reasonable” gun control regulations in an interview published Wednesday. Rooney, a gun owner and Second Amendment advocate, told Sarasota Magazine that he thought raising the minimum age for assault rifle purchases was a “reasonable” measure. “The problem […]
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© Getty Images In his op-ed on May 24, pro-gun commentator John Lott contends that Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws will cost lives and that making guns more readily accessible is the answer to gun violence. The opposite is true. Significant evidence shows that CAP laws save lives, and the defensive gun use myth fuels […]
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WASHINGTON – New York has the third lowest gun suicide rate in the United States, which a gun violence-prevention advocacy group attributes to its tight gun laws. A study by the Violence Policy Center found that states with relatively lax gun laws – like Montana and West Virginia – have some of the highest suicide […]
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AUSTIN — Just after the Santa Fe school massacre left 10 dead and 13 injured, Texans were almost evenly divided on stricter gun laws — including a slight drop in the number who support more restrictions, a new poll showed Thursday. The Quinnipiac University Poll showed 49 percent of those surveyed support stricter gun laws […]
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy displays his signature on the bump stock ban that he had just signed into law at Bulkeley High School in Hartford. He is surrounded by Democratic legislators and gun control advocates. (Christopher Keating / Hartford Courant) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a ban Thursday on so-called bump stocks — the devices […]
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CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — In February, Dick’s Sporting Goods made a decision to stop selling assault style rifles and high-capacity magazines, and to raise the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21. Executives braced for pain. Instead, they got good news. Dick’s Sporting Goods stock price surged by as much as 27 percent after it […]
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Signs on school door, from the documentary “G is for Gun.” An armed officer outside Sidney High School in Ohio, from the documentary “G is for Gun.” Kate Way Firearms training, from the documentary “G is for Gun.” Firearms training, from the documentary, “G is for Gun.” Firearms training, from the documentary, “G is for […]
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