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At issue are laws in California, Hawaii and three other states that generally prohibit carrying guns on private or public property that is open to the public.

One resident, Pertissue Fisher, described ICE agents putting a gun in her face and demanding to know her name and date of birth.

From Salon

Like a child with a gun, their relative weakness — the performative masculinity of an insecure adolescent — should not blind us to the harm they can cause, nor assure anyone that their failure is inevitable.

From Salon

Video shared on social media appeared to show police officers pointing guns at someone laying on the ground outside the front of the synagogue.

From BBC

“We had a gun to our head,” Baum told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff, who’s overseeing the juvenile hall abuse cases, when pressed by the judge on why he waived the rule.

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