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FACT CHECK: Shannon Watts Claims No Background Check Required to Buy Rifle in TX


FACT CHECK: Mike Bloomberg gun control affiliate Shannon Watts claimed there is no background check required for the purchase of rifles in Texas.


U.S. District Judge Blocks Illinois 'Assault Weapons' Ban


A U.S. District Judge issued a preliminary injunction against Illinois' "assault weapons" ban, noting in his opinion that there are already plenty of gun laws on the books that need to be enforced.


Gunman At Large After Killing Five ‘Execution Style,’ Police Say


Authorities in Texas are searching for a Mexican national suspected of killing five people late Friday following a dispute, according to multiple media reports.


Police Seek 'Mexican Male' in Shooting That Killed 5 in TX


Law enforcement officials are seeking a "Mexican male" in connection with a shooting that left five people dead in Cleveland, Texas, Friday night, according to reports.


This story was constructed with the SHARI Process:

  1. The StoryGraph Toolkit extracted URIs from the biggest story of the day from the StoryGraph service
  2. Hypercane performed the following steps:
    1. It accepted the list of original resource URIs from the output of the StoryGraph Toolkit, and queried the Memento Aggregator to find as many mementos as possible
    2. For resources that were not already mementos, it submitted them to web archives with ArchiveNow
    3. It analyzed all mementos to automatically discover the most frequent sumgrams and named entities present in the overall story
    4. It analyzed all images in these mementos to automatically select the best image for the overall story
    5. It then formatted the data for the story based on all of this input
  3. Raintale took the input from Hypercane and rendered the final product with information supplied by MementoEmbed
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