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Mike Thompson is walking point again.

This time, the Northern California congressman and former Vietnam War infantryman is stepping out ahead of gun control. His job, in part, is to find politically feasible firearms solutions that can work without endangering his fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives.

A Marine veteran jailed for months in Mexico after trying to carry a family heirloom shotgun across the border has been freed, officials and his lawyer said late Friday. Jon Hammar, who is from Florida, left for Mexico this summer, about three months after he left the Pathway Home in Yountville where he had been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.

When Rep. Gabby Giffords and 18 other Americans were gunned down in front of a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket in January 2011, I thought Congress would start to move on gun control legislation. Giffords was, after all, one of their own members. I was disappointed.

WASHINGTON â€" After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday and promised ‘‘to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.''

WASHINGTON â€" Manufacturers of the popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the type of weapon used last week in the Newtown, Conn., killings, girded for the worst Tuesday as gun control moved to the forefront of the legislative agenda in the nation's capital and retailers pulled the weapon from store sales floors and websites.

WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Congressional gun rights supporters showed an increased willingness Tuesday to consider new legislation to control firearms in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings â€" provided it also addresses mental health issues and the impact of violent video games.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Mourners overlapped at back-to-back services as funerals began in earnest in a Connecticut town that lost 20 of its children and seven adults to a gunman, with emotions and tempers in tatters amid a global crush of media attention to a community once known mostly for its bucolic atmosphere and sterling school system.

WASHINGTON â€" After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday and promised ‘‘to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.''