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A teenager accused of shooting and killing his parents and three siblings in a home near Seattle earlier this week has been charged with murder, authorities said in court documents released Thursday.
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The nation's top doctor issued an advisory on Tuesday declaring gun violence a public health crisis and prescribing policy changes to treat it as such. It's both unprecedented and unenforceable.
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The measure would require the state to share the names of people involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities with the FBI’s gun database used in background checks.
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One measure would have permitted relatives or police to ask a judge to temporarily remove firearms from someone deemed dangerous.
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The ruling comes as lawmakers are considering a bill that could make certain mental health records available for background checks during a gun purchase.
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The number of homicides last year matched the total number in 2022.
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New Hampshire is one of just a handful of states that don’t require notification to a federal gun background check database when a person is committed to a psychiatric facility.
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In an op-ed last week, leaders at Dartmouth Health said preventing gun deaths should be seen as a public health issue – not a political one. In New Hampshire, most gun deaths are suicides.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Biden administration's regulation of ghost gun kits.