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Second Amendment advocates warn of ‘gun apocalypse’ under Biden

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Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes a point at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla.

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Joseph R. Biden’s full-throated embrace of tough new gun laws and firearms bans brings Democrats full circle in the party’s two-decade evolution on guns in presidential campaign politics.

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., left, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., center, listen as Attorney General William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the Mueller Report. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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President Donald Trump listens during an event called &quot;Kids First: Getting America's Children Safely Back to School&quot; in the State Dining room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Worshippers practice social distancing using every other pew in The Church at Liberty Square resuming Sunday services in Cartersville, Ga., Sunday, June 7, 2020, for the first time since a major outbreak of the coronavirus disease at the chuch. The outbreak of COVID 19 sickened scores of worshippers and killed several. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., pass each other as Harris moves tot the podium. To speak during a campaign event at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle demand homeowners give up their property as a form of reparations, Aug. 12, 2020. The march through neighborhoods was live-streamed by Concrete Reporting via the Periscope app. (Image: Periscope app live stream, Concrete Reporting, video screenshot)

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In this combination of file photos, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., on March 12, 2020, left, and President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2020. The Trump campaign is calling for a fourth debate to be added into the presidential-debate schedule, this one in early September, as the earliest scheduled debate now in the works for Sept. 29 comes weeks after the earliest early-voting periods begin in some states. (AP Photo, File) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an event on police reform, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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In this Dec. 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump displays the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package he signed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump is now three for three. Each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack Obama during the same time-span. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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People walk on the words Black Lives Matter that was painted in bright yellow letters on 16th Street as demonstrators protest Sunday, June 7, 2020, near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Portland protests return downtown as police use tear gas early Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Officers used tear gas to break up the crowd of several hundred people who gathered near the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, the neighboring Multnomah County Justice Center and a nearby police precinct station. (Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP)

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In this handout photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, and provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund, an employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)

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Worshippers practice social distancing using every other pew in The Church at Liberty Square resuming Sunday services in Cartersville, Ga., Sunday, June 7, 2020, for the first time since a major outbreak of the coronavirus disease at the chuch. The outbreak of COVID 19 sickened scores of worshippers and killed several. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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