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Do Background Checks on Ammunition Sales Work?

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Democrats in the state Senate have made tighter gun control a main priority this year. A big part of that plan is making people go through background checks before they buy ammunition. To get a sense of how that new level of scrutiny would work, we look at how two California cities are already tracking ammunition sales.

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