Baker letter adds to debate over Healey’s weapons crackdown

Baker letter adds to debate over Healey’s weapons crackdown

STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker urged Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday to clarify her stepped up enforcement of the state's assault weapons ban, warning that "ambiguities" in her legal notice for gun dealers could lead to an unintentional ban on many guns long considered legal in Massachusetts.

Baker, in a letter to Healey, said he supports the state's assault weapons ban as well as the Second Amendment rights of its citizens.

Attack on French church puts focus on ISIS’ anti-Christian hatred
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Attack on French church puts focus on ISIS’ anti-Christian hatred

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(CNSNews.com) – French President Francois Hollande was due to hold emergency talks with religious leaders on Wednesday as France grapples with how to protect places of worship after Islamic terrorists took hostages in a Catholic church in Normandy during morning Mass and murdered an elderly priest.

The attack in St.-Étienne-Du-Rouvray by two men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) was the latest in a spate of violent assaults in Europe and beyond.

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