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The measure was prompted by a shooting at New Hampshire Hospital last November. It found bipartisan support in the House, but was tabled along party lines in the Senate.
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Maine has become the second state, after Virginia, to adopt a Mass Violence Care Fund. It's a $5 million endowment designed to provide ongoing assistance to mass casualty victims, survivors and their families.
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The Massachusetts Army National Guard submitted a new plan to the Environmental Protection Agency after officials from the federal agency found the range’s initial design could contaminate the aquifer that runs beneath the base. That aquifer provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of Cape residents and visitors.
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Vermont has distributed 4,000 gun locks since launching a gun safety initiative last year, U.S. Attorney Nikolas Kerest announced Tuesday.
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The Massachusetts Army National Guard's proposal comes as a response to a critical Environmental Protection Agency draft report released a year ago, which found the range could contaminate drinking water and create a significant threat to public health for hundreds of thousands of year-round residents on Cape Cod.
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The Justice Department's new rule requires background checks for all gun sales, not just ones sold at gun stores. Attorney General Merrick Garland said it will save lives.
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Nobody was injured in this week’s 'unintentional discharge' of a Sig Sauer model P320 pistol. Cambridge Police say this is the fourth instance of its department-issued Sig Sauer gun firing unintentionally.
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An interim report from the independent Lewiston shooting commission said it was an "abdication of law enforcement's responsibility" when they chose to rely on Robert Card's family to remove his guns.
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At a School Committee Meeting, students and staff from several schools made public comments claiming they were completely unaware of a shooter on campus, and there was a lack of transparency between administrators, faculty and students.
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Connecticut lawmakers are considering several bills that they say will protect voters and workers ahead of November’s presidential election.