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on January 11, 2017 in Gun Page World News

Chicago Police Board Chair: Windy City Needs Federal Help to Turn Tide on Crime

by AWR Hawkins During a January 7 interview on NPR, Chicago Police Board Chairwoman Lori Lightfoot said Chicago cannot end the city’s violence alone — they need federal help. Chicago’s Lightfoot “also chairs Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force.” According to NPR, Lightfoot said: We need to have more federal gun prosecutions in Chicago. Our federal partners from the U.S. attorney’s office, the ATF, the FBI need to be much more invested in this overall strategy. Chicago Police Department cannot tackle this issue by itself. Lighfoot’s statement came less than a week after President-elect Donald Trump tweeted: Chicago murder… View Article

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on December 29, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Nevada AG Blocks Implementation of Bloomberg-Backed Background Checks

by AWR Hawkins On December 28, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt issued an opinion blocking the implementation of the universal background checks Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety secured via a “narrowly approved” November 8 ballot initiative. Like the Washington state initiative that Bloomberg-funded Everytown secured in November 2014, the Nevada initiative would have required Nevada residents to go through a background check for every gun sale, whether retail or private. The checks were supposed to go into effect on January 1, but Laxalt has now halted the process. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Laxalt found the checks… View Article

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