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Appeals court strikes California's under-21 ban on semiautomatic-gun sales

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    -34% Somewhat Left

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    -57% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Stein said the regulation did not place a "severe burden" on gun ownership rights on young adults and noted they could get semiautomatic rifles from family members or borrow them from others.
56% : "Student safety on our campuses is something we should all rally behind and sensible gun control is part of that solution."
52% : The ruling, however, was not a total victory for gun rights advocates.
49% : Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the decision is a clear sign of how courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court which has a major gun case before it, are expanding gun rights.
46% : hunting license 'exemption' -- the only exemption that is even possible for an ordinary, law abiding young adult who does not wish to enter into a highly dangerous career in law enforcement or the military -- by prohibiting an entire class of firearms."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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