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The bill, which has bipartisan support, would impose strict penalties on buyers and sellers involved in purchases of firearms for someone who can't legally buy one. WASHINGTON — The Senate will take up its first firearms measure since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, after the Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday to combat gun trafficking. The proposal, steered by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee chairman, would impose strict penalties for buying a firearm for someone who cannot legally do so, an act known as a straw purchase. The bill would also toughen punishment for selling a gun to...

Milwaukee police are asking state legislators and gun rights activists to back three proposals police say would repair Wisconsin's concealed-carry law - among them: barring people with three misdemeanor convictions in five years from obtaining a concealed-carry permit. ~snip~ But one of Wisconsin's most prominent gun rights organizations says the proposals are too broad and could make it more difficult for law-abiding people to exercise their constitutional right to defend themselves with guns. Police say they see three main problems with the existing law, which took effect in November and made Wisconsin the 49th state to allow concealed carry: First,...

Brian Greer Murphy's shopping list for his gang-banger customers was extensive, if repetitive. Hi-Point .380-caliber semi-automatic pistol. Hi-Point .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol. Hi-Point .9mm semi-automatic pistol. Hi-Point, Hi-Point, Hi-Point. From July 15, 2002, to Dec. 9, 2002, Murphy bought 73 firearms -- almost all of them Hi-Point -- for criminal customers who could not legally buy their own. Yet it was the single, unloaded .45-caliber gun wedged between the seat and floor of his car, found last year by South St. Paul police in a traffic stop, that put him away for more than three years. Prosecutors were able to obtain...