Obama unveils new gun controls
By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-18 08:05
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US President Barack Obama is flanked by children as he signs a executive order designed to tackle gun control, on Wednesday in Washington. One month after a massacre that left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut, the president unveiled a package of gun control proposals that include universal background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Mark Wilson / Getty Images via Agnece France-Presse |
US President Barack Obama, criticized by some for his inaction on gun violence in the past four years, launched an aggressive battle on Wednesday for a package of measures on firearms control.
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