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Pro- and anti-gun bills fail in Tennessee legislature
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An election-year Tennessee legislative session tinged by national attention on a deadly school shooting in Florida saw many high-profile gun bills fail— both Republican efforts to ease gun laws and Democratic pushes to put more restrictions in place. As in many other states, lawmakers in the Republican-led General Assembly scrambled to react in response to the Feb. 14 shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead. They cleared a budget that Republican Gov.