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By Jennifer Steinhauer State lawmakers across the United States are ramping up efforts to pass new restrictions on guns, following nearly a decade in which state legislative efforts have been dominated by gun advocates.

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, Dec. 22: Last winter, Virginia Tech University student Seung Hui Cho bought two pistols from licensed gun dealers.

By Albert Raboteau albert.raboteau@roanoke.com 381 - 1663 In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed what may become the federal government's first significant gun-control law in more than a decade. The bill, pushed by U.S.

By New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to close a loophole in gun-control laws that allowed the Virginia Tech gunman to buy firearms even though he had been committed to a mental hospital.