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 Giffords was kicking off a seven-state tour pushing for stricter background checks. Giffords fires a gun again 
 
 Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a handgun in her left hand on Monday, held it straight and steady and fired it at a target in a Las Vegas firing range. 
 
 With her husband, Mark Kelly, helping her guide the gun down after one shot, Giffords smiled and waved, kicking off a seven-state tour pushing for stricter background checks on gun purchases, according to a video provided by ABC News. 
 
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 It was the first time she has shot a gun since Jared Lee Loughner shot her in the head and killed six others in a January 2011 rampage. Kelly also took some practice shots. 
 
 ( PHOTOS: Gabrielle Giffords’s congressional career) 
 
 “Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting,” Giffrods wrote in an op-ed published Monday in USA Today. “But I’m a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.” 
 
 The couple, who say they are proud gun owners, are taking new polling data to Nevada, Alaska, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Maine and New Hampshire to help their argument that lawmakers who support Second Amendment gun rights will prosper if they vote for stricter background-check measures. The seven day “Rights and Responsibilities Tour” is part of a larger effort to revive stalled background-check legislation, which failed to meet a 60-vote threshold in the Senate in April. 
 
 Longtime Giffords spokeswoman Pia Carusone said Giffords and Kelly’s spirits were high and Monday was a “great kick-off” to what is going to be a “really strong tour.” 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Police photos from Giffords shooting) 
 
 Speaking on MSNBC on Monday, Kelly said he’s confident they will be successful. 
 
 “I am confident and Gabby’s confident — and we wouldn’t have gotten into this if we didn’t think that we could be effective in getting Congress to enact some sensible gun laws,” Kelly said. “It’s going to take a little bit of time.”
– Gabrielle Giffords kicked off her seven-day, seven-state "Rights and Responsibilities Tour" for gun control by firing a gun for the first time since she was shot by Jared Lee Loughner, Politico reports. The former congresswoman, aided by husband Mark Kelly, took one shot with a handgun at a Las Vegas firing range yesterday. ABC News caught the whole thing on video. Giffords and Kelly are campaigning to reboot measures for stricter background checks, and will be visiting Nevada, Alaska, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Maine, and New Hampshire.