Gun control is a subject about which Americans have argued for a long time.

枪支管制是美国人长期争论的话题。

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Time and again, Mr. Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.

希尼先生一次又一次回到了“笔”这个意象中。他开始了他漫长的写作生涯，这支笔就像一支枪，舒适地依偎在他的手指和拇指之间。

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Time and again Mr Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.

这一次，希尼先生又回到了“笔”这个意象中，开始了他长长的生涯来描写这样一只笔，如同一支枪一样舒适的依偎在指间。

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Finally in 2011, conservatives led by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper voted to abolish the long-gun registry and destroy all its records.

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Cerberus was quite vocal in its plan to sell the Freedom Group, the roll-up of long-gun manufacturers that have proven incredibly profitable in the firearm fever of the past five years.

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Canada recently got rid of its costly "long-gun" registry for rifles in part because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Chiefs of Police could not provide a single example in which tracing was of more than peripheral importance in solving a gun murder.

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