Armed with clubs and pistols, vigilantes went door to door, herding more than three hundred men, women, and children through the streets and out of town.
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Beth Lew-Williams,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
Federal agents executed a search warrant at her home in Virginia and found three 9mm pistols, including one inside a purse that also contained Perkins’ photo identification.
In 2021 5,972 firearms were intercepted at airports, in 2022 6,542 firearms were stopped at checkpoints, while 2023 saw 6,737 firearms discovered in carry-on luggage.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
No stranger to controversy or conflict, Underwood once ran a firearms marketplace that made headlines for hosting an auction of the handgun used in the Trayvon Martin shooting, in which the 17-year-old was killed by a member of a community watch organization while walking in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
And in Utah, where Kirk was murdered, lawmakers recently changed the law to clarify that people can openly carry guns on college campuses, including students as young as 18 years old.
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John Feinblatt,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
The American electorate has made its views on guns clear again and again.
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