Other states with gun laws like New York include California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Mr. Biden met Wednesday with gun-safety advocacy groups, as well as victims and survivors of shootings.
Still, the GOP has accused Democrats of holding up the bill by playing politics with gun control.
My experience with gun owners is that they are far smarter than this.
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Some rural sheriffs view the federal government as an adversary, with gun ownership at the core of that belief.
In the first 11 months of 2012, the FBI conducted 16.8 million background checks in conjunction with gun purchases.
But he said those fears did not reflect reality and he pleaded with gun owners to set their peers straight.
President Barack Obama has set a January deadline for "concrete proposals" to deal with gun violence after the Newtown shooting.
Less well known is that the NRA has also helped ALEC spread other conservative laws that have nothing to do with gun rights.
The National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre hailed the ability of a "good guy" with a gun to stop a "bad guy" with a gun.
Hunters use swamp buggies--decked out with gun rests, dog boxes and winches for hauling in game--to negotiate a maze of cypress, palmettos and scrub oaks.
It was equipped with gun emplacements, barracks, and a hospital.
When this happens it is dedicated local folk in their rusting pick-up trucks with gun racks in the rear window that are called upon to bring them to safety.
The survey results have been publicly available since last June, but with gun control issues high on the national agenda, Bloomberg held a news conference to discuss the findings Thursday.
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.
But I know that Senator Flake, for example, talked about the impact that that had on his standing in the state of Arizona with voters in Arizona, including with gun owners in Arizona.
John Podhoretz wrote in the New York Post that 35 million American households have guns, but as evidenced by how few of those homes are murderous ones, gun ownership in no way correlates with gun violence.
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In the spring of 1995, the Trauma Foundation, a nonprofit based at San Francisco General Hospital published an issue of its Injury Prevention Network Newsletter, partly funded by the CDC, that suggested actions that could be taken by those concerned with gun violence.
First, he showed that the counties with high gun-magazine sales had similar demographics to those associated with the profile of typical gun-owners in national-level surveys.
So, what we learn is that states that in my earlier view of gun homicide showed up with low gun-death rates like Idaho, lie toward the top to the total death-by-firearm statistics.
But even as we built airplanes and cars and weapons of astounding reliability and precision, they are still at the mercy of a madman with a gun, or a moron with the wrong fuel or jerk with poor judgment.
State reinforcement of federal penalties for providing false information when buying a gun, running background checks on buyers at gun shows, allowing local discretion to police when issuing concealed-carry permits, requiring purchase permits for handguns and allowing municipalities to set their own gun laws are all associated with lower gun-trafficking rates.
They pulled back on finding Gerald "Skip" Murphy, who said he was armed with a gun and explosives and had three unidentified people with him - a 16-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a woman aged 18.
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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As the cab sped off, The Detective sprinted across the parking lot with his gun drawn.
Zeinab was also shot in the shoulder and was struck with the gun, but survived.
He added that he had been beaten with a gun by a gang including Mr Duggan.
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