DAILY ALERT FOR Friday, January 22, 2016
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LEGAL & LEGISLATION
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Yesterday, January 20, Senate Bill 19 was passed out of committee. Current law allows Delaware Law Enforcement to sell or auction off seized firearms instead of mandating that they be destroyed.
ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Gun seized from El Chapo's hideout linked to 'Fast and Furious'
A .50-caliber weapon recovered from Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's hideout came from the ATF's botched Arizona case known as Operation Fast and Furious
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gun control group submits petitions for Maine ballot measure
Maine election officials are verifying petitions for a ballot measure requiring criminal background checks for all private gun sales in the state.
NEW YORK TIMES
The Sundance Film Festival Trains Its Sights on the Gun Debate
Gun violence can be an awkward subject at the Sundance Film Festival. Over the years, the event has helped popularize — some would say glamorize — extreme gun imagery in movies; Quentin Tarantino was incubated and hatched here.But this year Sundance programmers, with deep commitment to freedom of expression, and their selected filmmakers seem to be taking a position that real guns, not the movie kind, ought to be more tightly policed.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
California bill would further restrict semi-automatics
The Senate bill announced Wednesday by Democrats Steve Glazer of Orinda and Isadore Hall of Compton joins similar legislation introduced last week in the Assembly.
TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
Kansas Board of Regents approves gun policy allowing concealed weapons on campus in 2017
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a policy allowing anyone lawfully able to carry a concealed handgun to do so on public university campuses beginning next year.
THE HILL
NRA: Obama, Clinton want Australian-style gun confiscation
The National Rifle Association is tying President Obama and Hillary Clinton to Australia's gun buy-back program, arguing the two Democrats want to confiscate American guns.
