Addressing gun violence in Rhode Island will require stricter gun laws as well as improved social programs that address the underlying socioeconomic issues, congressional, state and city leaders said at a news conference Monday held in response to several recent shootings in the state.

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DENVER (KDVR) -- The Colorado House passed two bills addressing gun violence, and will now move to the Senate for consideration.  Bill HB21-1298 expands background requirements for firearm transfers. A person convicted of specific violent misdemeanor offenses, like sexual assault, cruelty to animals and child abuse, would be prohibited from buying firearms for five years. The vote was 42-21 in favor of the bill.“Colorado is showing that we can d…

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Background check expansion, Office of Gun Violence Prevention bills pass Colorado House

Click here for updates on this story    MIAMI  (WFOR) —  The Miami Police Department is joining forces with other law enforcement and local leaders to target crime hotspots in an effort to bring gun violence to a screeching halt.“If there aren’t cops in those areas, all we’re going to find is the casings. We want to catch those crooks as they’re leaving the area, stop them, and take them to jail,” said Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo.he 90-day op…

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Local leaders launch 90-day operation to combat gun violence

Minneapolis police are investigating the shooting of a 9-year-old girl who was critically wounded while playing with friends Saturday night in the northside of the city...

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Family of 9-year-old shot in Minneapolis: 'Kids just can't be kids, something's got to give'

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In mid-April, Austin Police Department launched a new violence intervention program aimed at fighting gun violence and cracking down on offenders.On Monday, APD announced more than 60 firearms have been seized by the Organized and Violent Crime Divisions of the department under the program, which runs through Aug. 31.

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More than 60 firearms seized by Austin Police under violence intervention program

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Elected leaders in Rhode Island, including all four members of the state's congressional delegation, plan to speak Monday morning after several recent shootings in Providence and the surrounding area.At 11 a.m., U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline will join Gov. Dan McKee, the Nonviolence Institute, and Attorney General Peter Neronha to discuss what's being done a…

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After recent shootings, RI leaders and advocates seek to address gun violence

Preventing gun violence in Louisville took center stage at Monday's Metro Council budget committing hearing.

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Metro Government group puts emphasis on preventing gun violence during budget hearing

Since Australia's much-lauded (and much-overstated) gun buyback in 1996, various American localities have tried the same thing, selling the move as a way to lessen gun violence and crime.But a new study—the first one looking closely at the specifics of buybacks in America—indicates that the policies don't accomplish much more than putting money in some gun owners' pockets.

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[Opinion] Gun Buybacks Don't Seem To Significantly Lower Gun Crimes or Gun Deaths

The FBI, under Republican pressure, has reclassified the 2017 near massacre of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, from “suicide by cop” to an act of domestic terrorism.

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FBI reclassifies 2017 Congressional baseball shooter as ‘domestic violent extremist’

A 2-year-old girl was shot Friday evening in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

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