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The Massachusetts State House. Gov. Maura Healey signed an emergency preamble on Wednesday to immediately implement sweeping gun reforms across the state. BARRETT WALSH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Gun reform advocates celebrate Healey’s emergency implementation of H.4885, opposition looks to repeal

Elizabeth Mehler October 11, 2024
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed an “emergency preamble” on Wednesday that immediately implemented H.4885, “An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws.”
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

OP-ED: We invite BU to join us in the fight against gun violence

Guest Writer January 28, 2024
Inspired by the recent op-ed published by March For Our Lives at UNC-Chapel Hill, leaders of Students Demand Action at BU invite students to join the fight against gun violence, too.
Elizabeth Warren

‘Just Majority’ campaign tour starts in Boston, calling for judicial reform

Emilia Wisniewski April 24, 2023
Elected officials and advocacy organization representatives spoke at Copley Square Monday morning on the first stop of the “Just Majority” tour to demand for a re-evaluation of the United States Supreme Court.
March for Our Lives

Boston’s latest March For Our Lives protest featured activists, teachers, student speakers

Adithya Iyer April 6, 2023
March For Our Lives, a youth-led movement dedicated to eliminating gun violence, held a protest Tuesday at Harvard University’s campus.
March for Our Lives

GALLERY: Students and community members attend the March For Our Lives rally at Harvard

Daily Free Press Staff April 6, 2023
Protestors rallied for gun reform at Harvard Yard on Tuesday. David Hogg attended the rally and delivered a speech.
Senator Ed Markey speaks at the anti-gun violence rally

College students across Boston rally against gun violence

Matthew Eadie February 28, 2023
Less than two weeks after three students were killed and four were injured in a mass shooting at Michigan State University, students from a number of colleges across Boston protested against gun violence on Friday to demand change.
March for our lives

GALLERY: Thousands protest gun violence in the March for Our Lives rally

Hui-En Lin June 14, 2022
Christopher Columbus Park was flooded with protestors demanding action against gun violence on June 11.
A guard passes by the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston. A federal judge has declared that the Massachusetts ban on assault weapons doesn’t infringe on the Second Amendment. PHOTO BY PHOTO BY NICKI GITTER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Assault weapons not protected by Second Amendment, judge says

Camille Mojica April 11, 2018
The current Massachusetts ban on assault weapons does not infringe on the Second Amendment, a U.S. Federal Court Judge ruled Friday.
Mike Capuano and Rep. Stephen Lynch at the Town Hall for Our Lives on Saturday afternoon. The event was held at the Bruce C. Polling Municipal Building in Roxbury. PHOTO BY ELIZA SHAW/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Town Hall for Our Lives continues gun reform debate in Roxbury

Vivian Situ April 8, 2018
Town Hall for Our Lives was held Saturday afternoon in Roxbury for students and members of the community to question elected officials about their support for the gun reform movement.
Rachel Schlueter and Shawna James speak at the BU walkout on Marsh Plaza Wednesday morning. PHOTO BY DENGFENG YANG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students participate in walkout against gun violence

Michelle Shvimer March 14, 2018
Exactly one month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead, Boston University students gathered in Marsh Plaza on Wednesday as part of a national school walkout to advocate for gun law reform.

LETTER: Really worth it?

Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2013

Varun Jain scored a perfect score on the SAT when he was only 14 years old. Jacob Rice has been putting shoes on underprivileged members of his community since age 10 through a non-profit he started. But...

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