RALEIGH — Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday urged Republican elected officials to pass legislation preventing people on the federal government’s database of known or suspected terrorists from buying guns in North Carolina. With the idea stifled again nationally last week in the U.S. Senate, Cooper said North Carolina should take the lead to block firearm sales in the state to people on the FBI’s “terrorist watch list.” “Stopping terror suspects from getting weapons that could harm our state and its people makes common sense,” Cooper...
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