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Russia Has Strict Gun Control Laws. A Gunman Killed At Least Five Churchgoers There On Sunday.

Hank Berrien

Guess what? On Sunday in Russia, which has strict gun control laws, a gunman opened fire on a Russian orthodox Chruch in Kizlyar in the republic of Dagestan, killing at least five people and wounding four others.

According to authorities, the gunman was a local resident who used his hunting rifle to target people leaving the Sunday morning service. After the shooting, Islamic State group claimed responsibility, stating on an Islamic State-affiliated website that for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia’s predominantly Muslim Dagestan region that a Muslim fighter attacked “a Christian temple.”

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