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Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed 11 new gun laws and vetoed six others. Among the vetoed bills is AB 180, which would have allowed Oakland to pass gun control measures that are stricter than the state norm. SB 299 would have required owners to report stolen guns within seven days. SB 374 would have banned the sale of semi-automatic rifles with removable magazines. And SB 755 would have added drug abuse convictions to the list of what would prohibit someone from owning a gun for 10 years.

This last veto in particular is leaving progressives baffled. According to Garen Wintemute, director of the U.C. Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, a gun owner with one misdemeanor conviction, such as a D.U.I., is five times more likely to commit a violent crime with a firearm than someone with no prior arrest record. In his veto message, Brown explained, “I am not persuaded that it is necessary to prohibit gun ownership on the basis of crimes that are non-felonies, non-violent and do not involve misuse of a firearm.” When George Skelton at the Los Angeles Times asked the governor to elaborate, he simply said, “The message speaks for itself.”

“I was just stunned,” Wintemute, who is also an emergency room physician, told the Los Angeles Times. “[Brown] was just wrong on the facts…There are dozens of studies associating acute alcohol intoxication and a history of D.U.I.s with the risk of committing future gun violence.”

Skelton points out that Gov. Brown has always been a gun guy: he’s the proud owner of an inherited 12-gauge shotgun, a .38 police special and a .22 rifle, and he enjoys plinking on his ranch. And his father, former Gov. Pat Brown, once told him, “Don’t mess with a man’s car or his guns.”

Here is today’s report.

—Jennifer Mascia

An 8-year-old boy was shot as a family member handled a stolen gun in Chester, Pa., Thursday afternoon. The child was in a second-floor bedroom of his home when the 9mm Ruger went off, striking him in the buttocks. A 19-year-old family member was arrested.

—NBC Philadelphia

26-year-old Marcquise McLemore, a security guard at an Opa-locka, Fla., apartment complex, was wounded along with three others when gunfire erupted early Thursday. At about 2 a.m., two men opened fire on three men who were leaving the complex in a car. They suffered graze wounds. A stray round went through the guard house and struck the victim in the leg. “The pain was so horrible, all I could do was just lay there and watch the blood just ooze out of my body,” he said. Police are looking for the two gunmen, who fled the scene on foot.

—NBC Miami

Hailey Nicholls, 22, and Jesse Robledo, 27, were found shot to death in San Marcos, Tex., Thursday. The suspect, 23-year-old Daniel Brewster Stillwell, Nicholls’s ex-boyfriend, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter and the victims worked at the same restaurant.

—KXAN

Police said 32-year-old Evie Maldonado and her girlfriend, 38-year-old Diana Amaya, were shot and killed by Maldonado’s father, who then committed suicide, in El Monte, Calif., Tuesday evening. Harry Maldonado, 65, who lived in a condominium with the victims, became involved in an argument with them in the garage, and detectives suspect the shooting may have started as an accident when he brandished a semi-automatic handgun.

—San Gabriel Valley Tribune

One person was found shot to death and another person was found suffering from a gunshot wound in a car in South Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday morning. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.

—Los Angeles Times

Two people were killed in a shooting in a mobile home park in Bloomfield, N.M., Thursday night. Police do not have any suspects.

—Daily Times

A homeless man was shot and killed in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday afternoon. A surveillance camera showed the victim punching Horatio McKenley, 48, who pulled a gun from his waistband and shot him. A witness said the man was not a stranger to the area, where the poor and homeless eat and shower daily. The shooter was arrested.

—The Palm Beach Post

Larry Joe Turner II, 43, was found dead of gunshot wounds on the front porch of a home in Knoxville, Tenn., late Wednesday. James Hudgins, 47, was arrested without incident. Investigators say Hudgins and Turner may have known each other.

—WATE.com

Daniel Earl Ervin, 29, was shot in the back and killed outside his cousin’s home in Rock Hill, Ill., Wednesday night. When officers arrived, they found several people standing on the front porch and the victim bleeding on the front steps. Police have not identified any suspects.

—CharlotteObserver.com

A 52-year-old man was killed and his step-granddaughter, Britney McGhee, 20, was critically wounded in a shooting in Burson, Calif., Wednesday night. The man’s wife, Charity Ford, 56, was arrested. A 5-month-old boy in the home, McGhee’s son, was not harmed.

—The Modesto Bee

Brandon Luster, 28, was found shot to death in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Tucson, Ariz., late Wednesday. The shooting is likely gang-related. The suspect is at large.

—Arizona Daily Star

A 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man were shot in separate incidents in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday night. A spokesman for the N.Y.P.D. said no motive in the shootings has been established, and they are not sure if the shootings were related.

—Epoch Times

A 30-year-old man was shot and killed in Freeport, Ill., Wednesday night, and a 16-year-old seen running from the area has been taken into custody. No word on a motive.

—KWQC.com

A 41-year-old man was shot and killed in Edgewater, Colo., Thursday afternoon. Detectives do not believe the shooting was random.

—CBS Denver

A woman and her 15-year-old son were shot after a domestic dispute turned violent at their home in DeSoto, Tex., Wednesday night. The woman and her sons, ages 11 and 15, were pulling into the garage when the woman’s ex-husband, who was hiding outside, rolled under the door. 46-year-old Richard Richard then opened fire on the car. When police officers arrived at the scene, they found the shooter kneeling in a surrender position. He is in custody.

—CBS DFW

A 21-year-old man was shot in the hip and wounded in Yuma, Ariz., late Tuesday. Shortly before midnight, four men in a black Honda Civic pulled over next to the victim, beat the man with a baseball bat and shot him before driving off. Police are soliciting tips.

—YumaSun.com

A man was shot and wounded following an altercation in west Atlanta, Ga., Thursday afternoon. Michael F. Carroll was taken into custody.

—CBS Atlanta

Police found a 45-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the stomach in Portsmouth, Va., Thursday evening. Police are soliciting tips.

—PilotOnline.com

One person was killed in a shooting in Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday night. It is unclear whether anyone is in custody.

—Fox6Now.com

21-year-old Amberli Borrink walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound in west Omaha, Neb., Wednesday night. She told police she was in a vehicle near the Oak View Mall a little after 9 p.m. when someone in a dark sedan drove by and opened fire.

—Omaha.com

A 19-year-old man was shot and critically wounded in an alley in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Ill., Wednesday evening. The shooting is believed to be gang-related. No one is in custody.

—CBS Chicago

A man was injured in a shooting in the Central Ward of Newark, N.J., Wednesday night. Investigators have not identified a motive or suspect. It is the eighth shooting in the city since Saturday night.

—NJ.com

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 9,482 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.