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Obama unveils new gun controls

By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-18 08:05

Obama unveils new gun controls

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

Obama unveils new gun controls

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.

Obama unveils new gun controls

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