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The gun buyback program in New Zealand is not progressing as officials had hoped. After the county’s parliament banned most semi-automatic weapons in the wake of a deadly massacre, less than one percent of the now-prohibited firearms have been turned in.

A new study from researchers at Duke and the University of Chicago suggests that stricter enforcement of current gun laws would have an “immediate and substantial impact on gun crime” because most criminals obtain their firearms illegally and within six months of committing a crime.

A Ford dealership in Alabama used a classic marketing technique this week, but instead of a free hotdog or free movie tickets with purchase, they were offering a free shotgun. But once corporate got involved, the promotion was short-lived.

Senator Elizabeth Warren didn’t make any friends in the gun ban lobby during last night’s Democratic presidential debate. The candidate from Massachusetts sidestepped a question posed by moderator Chuck Todd, who asked Warren what she planned to do with the millions of privately-owned firearms in the United States.

At least ten bills are working their way through the California state legislature that would expand the state’s “red flag” law, according to the Los Angeles Times. The bills would, among other things, expand the list of people would could request gun confiscation orders and extend the duration of “gun violence restraining orders” from one to give years.

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Two Texas criminals who used a sawed-off shotgun will be resentenced after the Supreme Court struck down a “vague” law regarding crimes committed with a firearm.

The mayor of Pittsburgh, Penn., William Peduto awarded the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack, the “Maverick in Leadership” award promoting gun control.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez announced over the weekend his intention to introduce a bill that would ban the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer or possession of “gun silencers” or, as he also refers to them, “tools of death.”