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High-capacity-magazine bans could save lives if they hold up in court, experts say

Many modern gunmakers ship their AR-style rifles with larger magazines. These magazines have been popular with a particular subgroup: America’s mass shooters.

By Mark Berman and Todd C. Frankel

NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING

John Drake, chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. (Getty Images)

Police response in Nashville was ‘exact opposite’ to Uvalde, experts say

Body-camera footage shows heavily armed officers methodically sweeping classrooms and hallways until they find and kill the suspect — a police response experts described as “textbook.”

By Robert Klemko

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Shooter legally purchased 7 firearms, was under a doctor’s care for ‘emotional disorder’

By Silvia Foster-Frau, Joanna Slater, Mark Berman and Holly Bailey

Three 9-year-olds. Three adults. Remembering the students, staff members killed.

By Karina Elwood, Lori Rozsa, Justine McDaniel, Praveena Somasundaram and Rachel Hatzipanagos

The 7 Morning Briefing

7 things to know today: Nashville shooter; Mike Pence; Adnan Syed; probiotics; aligning planets; and more

He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.

A former graduate student in Washington, who claimed to be Brazilian but was unmasked as a Russian spy, has been charged by the U.S. with acting as a foreign agent.

By Greg Miller

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