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Why It Took Seven Years to Get One Statistic About Guns
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It took seven long years to pry one staggering number from the hands of the federal government: that 52,529 weapons …