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News

• The Berkshire Eagle: Healey's 2016 crackdown on copycat assault weapons took those firearms off market, by Heather Bellow (Feb 28, 2018)
• Boston Globe: Police seize weapons from man facing civil rights charges in Lexington, by Travis Andersen (Jan 6, 2017)
• Lexington Minuteman: Nazi helmet, weapons found in Robert Ivarson's Lexington home, by Julie Lonchich/WCVB (Jan 6, 2017)
• Lexington Minuteman: DA: Thousands of bullets, dozens of guns, and a Nazi helmet found in Ivarson's Lexington home, by Al Gentile (Jan 6, 2017)
• Boston Globe: Man arraigned for civil rights violations in Lexington, by Travis Andersen (Jan 4, 2017)
• Lexington Minuteman: Lexington man arrested for hate crime with banana peels, by Al Gentile (Jan 3, 2017)
• Mass Live: 'Copycat' weapon crackdown: Mass. House Speaker Robert DeLeo says Attorney General Maura Healey's assault weapons move likely heading to court, by Gintautas Dumcius (July 30, 2016)
• Boston Globe: AG faces sexist, antigay slurs after imposing gun ban, by Yvonne Abraham (July 30, 2016)
• Boston Globe: The loophole in the Mass. assault weapons ban, by Maura Healey (July 20, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: Lexington Selectmen start planning townwide conversation on gun control, by Al Gentile (July 8, 2016)
• Boston Globe: How tight is gun control in Massachusetts?, by Evan Horowitz (June 13, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Lexington sends message to lawmakers: Strengthen gun laws, by Ellen Ishkanian (Apr 7, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Lexington man backs off proposed town ban on ‘assault weapons’, by Ellen Ishkanian and Jennifer Fenn Lefferts (Mar 17, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Lexington man polls Town Meeting members on proposed gun ban, by Ellen Ishkanian (Mar 14, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Gun rights advocates decry proposal to ban semi-automatic weapons in Lexington, by Ellen Ishkanian (Mar 9, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Lexington debates proposal to ban semi-automatic weapons, by Jennifer Fenn Lefferts (Mar 8, 2016)
• Boston Globe: Gun licenses on the rise in Mass.; 7.8 percent increase seen, by Matt Rocheleau (Jan 27, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: Robert Rotberg pushes for ban on assault weapons in hometown of Lexington, by Al Gentile (Jan 4, 2016)

Links

• State Sen. Will Brownsberger's blog: Criminal Justice Reform — Statistics Collection
• FBI: 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment

Reports & Investigative Reporting

• Washington Post: The best available evidence suggests NRA-backed gun policies are making crime worse, by Christopher Ingraham (Mar 2, 2018)
• GQ: Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns, by Jeanne Marie Laskas (Aug 30, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: Gun license approval no simple task for Taunton police, by Charles Winokoor (Mar 13, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: State tracks gun sales, not owners, by Al Gentile (Mar 12, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: Where do guns used in crimes come from?, by Gerry Tuoti (Mar 12, 2016)
• Lexington Minuteman: States taking action to keep guns out of abusers' hands, by Ryan J. Foley/The Associated Press (Mar 12, 2016)

Advocacy

• http://www.lexforliberty.org - advocacy in favor of gun ownership