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Gun Owners Grapple With Shifting Conversations Around Firearms

This week on The Call-In, NPR's Renee Montagne talks with three gun owners who've been thinking a lot about the role guns play in American life.
There are roughly 300 million guns in America today. Gun owners have been thinking deeply about the role of firearms in American life.

These past few days saw changes to our gun regulations on both the national and the local level after an emotional couple of weeks following the mass shooting at a Florida high school.

In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott signed a package of new gun regulations into law. They include age limits and a new three-day waiting period on certain kinds of powerful guns. Nationally, the Department of Justice began the p, as well, submitting that legislation Saturday

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