But he said those fears did not reflect reality and he pleaded with gun owners to set their peers straight.
The gun rights effort includes those behind Gun Appreciation Day, set for January 19.
Biden traveled to a gun policy conference in Connecticut last month in the aftermath of December's Newtown school shootings, to underscore the administration's push for tougher laws as the state considers a broad set of gun control bills.
And especially if the Democratic nominee were Hillary Clinton we're told that he would really hurt her, that you would have another New Yorker, you would have a similar issue set - gun control, immigration, global warming - not the sort of issues that you would have on the Republican side.
Polls show that majorities of Americans favor almost every restriction actually being proposed to set limits on gun ownership.
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The rest of the states divide into those that do not allow concealed weapons on campuses (21) and those that permit colleges to set their own gun policies (24).
State reinforcement of federal penalties for providing false information when buying a gun, running background checks on buyers at gun shows, allowing local discretion to police when issuing concealed-carry permits, requiring purchase permits for handguns and allowing municipalities to set their own gun laws are all associated with lower gun-trafficking rates.
New York City Mayor Governor Michael Bloomberg, apparently upset that such a rampage with a legal weapon had not yet set off serious gun control efforts at the federal level, tried to heat up the debate on Monday with the shocking news that he was able to buy a bunch of guns illegally at a gun show in Arizona.
In Washington, the US Congress is set to debate new gun control legislation this month.
The accord also put him in front of President Barack Obama, who is set to announce his gun-control initiatives on Wednesday.
They set up a radar gun outside the stadium with a picture of Moyer and this simple challenge: Can YOU Throw Faster Than ME?
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And a pro-gun group, the Montana Shooting Sports Association, has set up a website that is updated with Baucus' public statements on gun policy.
Two police task forces have been set up to tackle gun and gang crime in Sefton after four shootings in the area in the past 12 months.
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Despite the number of mass shootings in the United States in 2012, Boston said he believes the laws already set in place for gun control are plenty.
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Five months ago, the group of homemade gun enthusiasts known as Defense Distributed set out to create a lethal firearm that could be downloaded and 3D-printed entirely from scratch, circumventing all gun control laws.
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Nelson, Georgia, is also set to vote on mandatory gun ownership on 1 April.
Black Friday 2011 set a new record for gun sales, surpassing only Black Friday 2008.
This month, President Barack Obama unveiled a two-pronged approach to gun violence that included legislation and a set of executive actions.
Militiamen set up a machine-gun on the roof, and the professor remembers watching their legs shake with fear as they fired deafening bursts at the hill behind the university.
While gun-rights organizations have fought a wide set of proposed firearms restrictions, they so far have expressed few concerns about the president's executive actions.
While in Minneapolis, the President will visit the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center to deliver remarks and discuss with local leaders and law enforcement officials his comprehensive set of commonsense ideas to reduce gun violence.
But we'll also continue to work on those things that the American people expect us to work on -- on creating jobs, growing the economy, making sure that we get comprehensive immigration reform, making sure that we move forward towards getting a comprehensive set of initiatives in place to reduce gun violence, and other things.
No proposal, or set of proposals, will ever stop all gun crime.
Another measure approved by the panel earlier this week would establish a framework for the Department of Education to set safety guidelines aimed at protecting schools from gun violence.
On Monday, the President will travel to the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he will deliver remarks and discuss with local leaders and law enforcement officials his comprehensive set of common-sense ideas to reduce gun violence.
Moriarity did not fully register what was happening until she saw Bishop her jaw set, her brow furrowed train the gun on a fourth colleague, Maria Ragland Davis, and shoot her.
He set the right tone for the seriousness of the gun control debate, from having students who had written to him about gun control as a backdrop to neatly bifurcating legislative action that he could take through executive order.
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Today in Colorado, President Obama asked the American people to continue calling on Congress to vote on a set of common-sense proposals to help reduce gun violence, including closing loopholes in the background check system to keep guns out of the hands criminals and others who should not have access to them.
Last year he set up Defense Distributed, a project aiming to print gun parts.
With scattershot imprecision, they set up a large target for future court challenges to gun restrictions across the country.
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