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Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on April 23, 2014 a press conference
Roughly 500,000 Georgians -- or about 5 percent of the state’s residents -- have gone through a background check to legally obtain a Georgia weapons carry license.
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By Nancy Badertscher • May 6, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2014 a speech to the NRA
"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.
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By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on February 14, 2014 a news release
Gun "marketplaces" on Facebook mean "ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon."
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By Dana Tims • February 27, 2014
Lisa Bloom
Lisa Bloom
stated on January 14, 2014 an interview with Piers Morgan
"Americans are 20 times as likely to die from gun violence as citizens of other civilized countries."  
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By Katie Sanders • January 17, 2014
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on December 3, 2013 a radio interview
"The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who don’t legally possess that firearm in the first place."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 15, 2013
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on December 3, 2013 a news release
Passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 8, 2013
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 22, 2013 a Facebook post
"The nine-day deer hunt contributes more than $1.3 billion in revenue to the state of Wisconsin."
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By Dave Umhoefer • December 4, 2013
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on November 19, 2013 an online campaign video
"Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent" since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.
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By Sue Owen • November 27, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on September 25, 2013 a debate.
Virginia is "the number one state per capita in screening out people with mental illness from gun purchases."  
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By Sean Gorman • October 7, 2013
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 an op-ed in USA Today
"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."
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By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 20, 2013 an interview on MSNBC
"In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)"
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By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2013
Peter Nightingale
Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 a web commentary
"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."
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By Michael McKinney • May 31, 2013
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 17, 2013 a speech on the Senate floor
"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons."
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By Becky Bowers • April 22, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 remarks in the White House Rose Garden
A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
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By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2013
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on February 19, 2013 an editorial board meeting
Says of 80,000 people who were denied a firearm in 2012 due to a failed background check, only 44 were prosecuted.
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By Jake Berry • March 22, 2013
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on February 27, 2013 House debate
Says Virginia, Florida and Georgia are the three states that are the principal source for gun trafficking.
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By Janel Davis • March 20, 2013
Vicki McKenna
Vicki McKenna
stated on February 18, 2013 a radio talk show broadcast
A proposed ban on hollow-point bullets and bullets that expand upon impact "essentially bans deer hunting."
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By James B. Nelson • March 10, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on February 26, 2013 a news release
"Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldn't figure out who has a gun."
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By Michael McKinney • March 7, 2013
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on February 19, 2013 an interview
"You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there."
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February 24, 2013
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