3444 Virginia Gun Purchases Denied in 2012

3444 Virginia gun purchases denied in 2012

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When adding denials for others prohibited from buying firearms, such as drug abusers, the mentally ill and domestic-assault offenders, Virginia's system has stopped 54,260 gun transactions over the past 24 years, records show. Virginia denied 3,444 …
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The waking nightmare

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She had no way of knowing, or any reason for suspecting, that the anaesthetist was a drug addict who had injected the fentanyl into her bloodstream after first using the syringe on himself. In doing so, he … In Victoria's Supreme Court last week …
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A Cardiac Conundrum

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The interventions—major procedures, with potentially significant side effects—provided little or no improvement in survival rates over standard medical and lifestyle treatment except in the very sickest patients. ….. In 2007, a study of more than 2 …
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