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Senate to Hold 2nd Gun Violence Hearing Since Newtown Shooting

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate holds its second hearing on gun violence today since December's shooting deaths of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Conn.

A Senate Judiciary subcommittee is examining the constitutionality and effectiveness of federal firearms limits.

Among the witnesses are a woman whose Chicago police officer brother was fatally shot in 2010 and another from Texas who says firearms restrictions prevented her from protecting her parents when they were killed in a 1991 mass shooting.

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