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Gabby Giffords: “It's to make sure that criminals don't have the access to a hand gun by going to a gun show or over the internet. It's…”

On the recordMarch 31, 2013
It's to make sure that criminals don't have the access to a hand gun by going to a gun show or over the internet. It's the most common sense thing we can do to reduce the guns in the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, the dangerously mentally ill.

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Giffords discusses the importance of legislation to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from accessing firearms.

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