Any added risk due to having a gun in the house is balanced by this deterrent.
No, in fact, modern sporting rifles are seldom the only gun in a house.
An officer goes to the home, asks each of the residents if there is a gun in the house.
Perhaps a principal family plans to shoot game at their ranch in Kenya for a month with the in-house gun collection.
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If you're a hunter, if you're a sportsman -- if you have a gun in your house for protection -- you've got to understand what it feels like for that mom whose son was randomly shot.
The Hermans' story of self-defense is being used by the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America to make their point to the White House and Congress about gun ownership.
President Barack Obama called the families of the Newtown victims after the vote, thanking them for helping nudge lawmakers to move forward with gun legislation, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
Russell Brand's Hollywood Hills home was a target Monday afternoon when a 911 caller told a Los Angeles Police Department emergency dispatcher that a man with a gun was in the house.
Responding to a home invasion robbery Friday morning, the Nassau County officer was told a man with a gun was inside the house but he was confronted with an even more complicated, dangerous situation when he stepped inside, authorities said: an armed suspect, holding a young woman in a headlock and using her as a body shield.
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"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry "asked for a really big gun, " the auction house said.
The family of 6-year-old victim Noah Pozner has contacted the White House to discuss gun laws and potential reforms.
Wal-Mart has now decided that it will, after all, attend week-long talks about gun legislation at the White House.
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Officers were called to King's Road on Tuesday after reports a gun was fired from a house towards another home.
Amid a push by the White House to strengthen gun laws, the bill reflects a growing divide in the US over whether more or fewer guns keep people safe.
Other scenes were more spontaneous: a trip to a gun-dealer's house turned nasty when the dealer misunderstood that Calil and Razaqi, acting out a scripted argument, were playing a role.
My grandfather did not know what to make of his encounter in the smokehouse, but his throat was tight when the blacksmith emerged from his house with the gun under his arm.
The issue quickly entered the national discussion over gun control, with White House spokesman Jay Carney referring to it in his daily press briefing and the issue coming up Wednesday in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence.
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In non-budgetary matters, the Senate has passed modest gun-control measures that the House says it will also accept.
Byron's vote came amid a White House campaign to strengthen gun laws after a mass school shooting in December.
Biden, who is leading a White House push for new gun laws, and Bloomberg, perhaps the nation's most powerful gun control advocate, met two days after it emerged that the prohibition on military-style firearms would be stripped from a slate of proposals expected to go to the Senate floor next month.
Most Republicans in the House of Representatives have top rankings from the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun-rights lobby, which quickly criticized the White House plans.
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House and Senate leaders cannot reach agreement over the gun show background check, even after a meeting last week at the White House.
In Washington on Friday night, protesters gathered outside the White House to call for tighter gun controls.
Hari Sreenivasan from PBS NewsHour, Vice President Biden will discuss the White House policy recommendations on reducing gun violence.
In Maryland, which also has a Democratic governor and legislature, a gun control bill was proceeding through the House of Delegates.
That means that despite a push by the White House and Democrats for tougher gun control steps, Feinstein's full measure is given little chance of winning congressional approval.
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On Monday, the White House spokesman said that tighter gun control laws were only part of the answer to violence in the US, and that "no single action will fully address the problem".
"I kicked him out of my house because he showed me his gun, " Kuck said.
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