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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

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Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia. Last month, Jones opened fire in an Omaha Target store using a legally purchased AR-15 rifle. The episode demonstrates how gun laws fail to keep firearms out of the hands of deeply troubled people. A red-flag law has been proposed for Nebraska this year, but it hasn't received a legislative hearing.

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

The man who entered an Omaha Target with an AR-15-style rifle and began firing before he was killed by police had been repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia

2 years ago·United States

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him.

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St. Albert Gazette

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him.

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him.

2 years ago·Vancouver, Canada

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Dawson Creek Mirror

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him.

2 years ago·British Columbia, Canada

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him.

2 years ago·Richmond, Canada

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