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State Senators Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, called on lawmakers to approve his bill to require toy guns to look different from guns that fire bullets, during the Senate session at the Senate at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. By a 22-8 vote the Senate approved the bill, SB199, requiring toy guns, BB guns, pellet guns and airsoft guns to be made to look clearly different from guns that fire bullets. The bill was prompted by the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Santa Rosa by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy who mistook the boys airsoft rifle for a real AK47 last October. The bill now goes to the Assembly.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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State Senators Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, right, and Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, seated, watch as the votes are tallied for de Leon's bill to require toy guns to look different from guns that fire bullets, during the Senate session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. By a 22-8 vote the Senate approved the bill, SB199, that will require toy guns, BB guns, pellet guns and airsoft guns to be made to look clearly different from guns that fire bullets. The bill was prompted by the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Santa Rosa by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy who mistook the boy's airsoft rifle for a real AK47 last October. The bill now goes to the Assembly.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, pauses as he discusses the conviction of Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Earlier in the day a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Wright guilty on eight counts of perjury and voter fraud.
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Senate minority leader Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake, looks on during Senate leadership news conference Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers have returned to the state Capitol for their annual legislative session, a five-week whirlwind that's one of the shortest in the country. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Ed Gillespie, who is running for Senate, speaks with Washington Times Reporter, Ralph Hallow, at his campaign office, in Alexandria VA., Friday, January 24, 2014. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)
