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The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence will now operate as part of Tucson-based Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions in the wake of the Jan. 8, 2011 Tucson shooting in which Giffords was wounded. Six people were killed and another dozen injured.
The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence was founded more than two decades ago, and the two groups began working together a few years ago.
“The incredible team at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence are really our country’s foremost policy and legal experts on firearms and firearms law,” said Mark Prentice, a spokesman for Americans for Responsible Solutions.
The Giffords group has a political action committee, which has spent money lobbying state legislatures and Congress for expanded background checks.
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