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By Lois Beckett, ProPublica

If you feel unsafe at a public pool in Charleston, W.Va., you may soon have the right to lie there on a towel with a handgun at your side.

For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state. But its gun laws — including a ban on guns in city parks, pools and recreation centers — are now likely to be rolled back, the latest victory in a long-standing push to deny cities the power to regulate guns.

Nullification: How states are making it a felony to enforce federal gun laws

May 3, 2013 6:18 am

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By Lois Beckett, ProPublica

Photo: ACS Law

In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons in-state without a federal license or any federal oversight.

Gun groups, defense contractors and Facebook increase spending on lobbyists

April 24, 2013 6:19 am

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By Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity

Gun groups, defense contractors, oil companies and the world’s largest social network increased their spending on lobbying last quarter, bucking an overall downward trend, newly filed congressional disclosures show.

As debate over gun control raged in the Senate, the National Rifle Association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Mayors Against Illegal Guns each spent more on federal-level lobbying during the year’s first three months than in any previous quarter.

Internet ammunition sales draw scrutiny

January 16, 2013 6:32 am

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By Fred Schulte, Center for Public Integrity

Proposed legislation to regulate online purchases of ammunition and high-capacity magazines is bringing new attention to a growing cyberspace ammo market that has operated with little government oversight.

Under federal law, firearms dealers must obtain a federal license and keep records of their transactions, but there’s virtually no federal regulation of ammunition suppliers or sales —though there was prior to 1986.

States have subsidized makers of assault weapons to tune of $19 million

January 2, 2013 4:14 pm

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By John Christie, Naomi Schalit, Theresa Sullivan Barger and Nathaniel Herz
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles used in multiple mass killings, including the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in

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Now, you can’t ban guns at the public pool

Nullification: How states are making it a felony to enforce federal gun laws

Gun groups, defense contractors and Facebook increase spending on lobbyists

Internet ammunition sales draw scrutiny

States have subsidized makers of assault weapons to tune of $19 million

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