But then again, the logical link between gun ownership and the sales of gun magazines can hardly be called tenuous.

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Authorities said they were running ballistics tests to see if they could conclusively link the gun Ebel used in Texas with the one that killed Clements.

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Instead of simply hitting back hard on gun control measures, they should be making the critical link between surges in gun violence and unemployment particularly in the inner city.

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Ms. Feinstein's new proposal also calls for gun registration, and the reasoning is straightforward: If a gun has been left at a crime scene and it was registered to the person who committed the crime, the registry will link the crime gun back to the criminal.

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Throughout the years that I covered the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, many people searched for the "smoking gun" that would prove the link between the Liberian president and the RUF.

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