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51. Delaware, gun ownership rate: 5.2 percent 50. Rhode Island, gun ownership rate: 5.8 percent Rhode Island state police Capt. James Manni gives a demonstration using an AR-15 semi-automatic assault weapon while testifying before a R.I. House Judiciary Committee at The Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Lawmakers reviewed proposed legislation Wednesday that would ban the sale of assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition magazines after July 1. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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49. New York, gun ownership rate: 10.3 percent 48. New Jersey, gun ownership rate: 11.3 percent Guns seized by the police are displayed during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Officials announced charges in a gun trafficking case where more than 70 firearms were seized. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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25. Arizona, gun ownership rate: 32.3 percent 24. Florida, gun ownership rate: 32.5 percent Jeff Miller's .40 caliber handgun is shown on his front seat Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in Mesa, Ariz. Miller routinely carries his handgun in his vehicle. Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law two bills supported by gun-rights activists. One of the bills signed Monday would broaden the state's current restrictions on local governments' ability to regulate or tax guns and ammunition.(AP Photo/Matt York)

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5. Wyoming, gun ownership rate: 53.8 percent 4. West Virginia, gun ownership rate: 54.2 Zak Smith, foreground, and Shane Coppinger, co-owners of Thunder Beast Arms Corp., prepare to shoot high-powered rifles fitted with sound supressors at a rifle range west of Cheyenne, Wyo., Wed., Nov. 28, 2012. Wyoming lawmakers will decide in coming months whether to follow a growing national trend and allow the use of silencers on hunting guns. (AP Photo/Ben Neary)

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35. Missouri (tie), gun ownership rate: 27.1 percent 34. Washington, gun ownership rate: 27.7 percent Jim Sowash handles a rifle at his gun shop near Stover, Mo., Thursday, June 20, 2013. Sowash signed a letter to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon urging him to sign a bill nullifying federal gun laws. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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11. Louisiana, gun ownership rate: 44.5 percent 10. Hawaii, gun ownership rate: 45.1 percent Kay Clark Miculek holds a .45 caliber Kimber 1911 in her right hand and a stainless .45 Smith and Wesson 1911 in her left hand in her gun store Thursday, May 18, 2006, in Bossier City, Louisiana. With more women turning to guns, manufacturers are tweaking their products and changing how they approach the burgeoning market, which is estimated to be worth at least $285 million this year in firearm sales alone to women. (AP Photo/Mike Silva)

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29. Oklahoma, gun ownership rate: 31.2 percent 28. Georgia, gun ownership rate: 31.6 percent Oklahoma County Sheriff Captain Jim Anderson demonstrates locking an AR-15 during a news conference to announce the launch of "Project ChildSafe Communities," in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. The initiative is an effort to reduce firearm accidents. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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7. New Mexico, gun ownership rate: 49.9 percent 6. Montana, gun ownership rate: 52.3 percent Firearms salesman Nathan Williams, 37, of Albuquerque, attends to customers at The Outdoorsman gun shop in Santa Fe, N.M., on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Currents in the national debate over gun regulations are converging on New Mexico as the state Legislature prepares to meet. Under one proposal, federally licensed gun dealers would run background checks on sales between unlicensed sellers and buyers for a fee. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

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Under manager Dave Martinez, the Nationals had two three-game losing streaks in April and two four-game skids this season. (Associated Press)

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Cutting the ceremonial ribbon on Thursday at the Made in DC kiosk at Ronald Reagan National Airport were (from left) Pop Up Collaborative founder Rahama Wright; Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Board of Directors chairman Warner H. Session; and Kristi Whitfield, Made in DC founder and director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development. (Emily Ketterer/The Washington Times)

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Copies of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 federal budget are staged for display by Eric Euland, Republican staff director for Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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Lawmakers in Texas and North Carolina are the latest to push for increases in fees for hybrid and electric vehicles. However, that push is getting resistance from environmental groups who say the fees would discourage people from buying these vehicles. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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American Debt Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Biden Green Deal (Illustration by Henry Payne for Detroit News)

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Squeezing Free Market Drugs Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on classified leaking and journalism by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

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Federal Reserve Cuts Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Visitors to New York's Times square walk past a Ruby Tuesday restaurant, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Customers have been walking away from sit-down chains as convenience and affordability take precedence. Ruby Tuesday said this week that its CEO is resigning, and the chain forecast another quarter of lower sales as it closes locations. It's the latest of several established restaurant groups that are retrenching, changing management or scrambling to adapt as people have more food choices all around them. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)