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.

Published 4 months ago · Omaha, 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. The Nebraska man once lay down on a highway in Kansas because he wanted to be run over by a truck, but officers tackled him as he ran in front of vehicles.

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abc News

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

4 months ago·United States

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Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

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. The Nebraska man once lay down on a highway in Kansas because he wanted to be run over by a truck, but officers tackled him as he ran in front of vehicles. Time and time again, his family and the police took away his guns.But Jones was able to keep legally buying firearms and …

4 months ago·Miami, United States

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Wral News

Shooting at Nebraska Target highlights gaps in gun laws

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Alaska Highway News

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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San Diego Union Tribune

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

4 months ago·San Diego, United States

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