AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The measure, passed after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June expanded gun rights, also sets stringent standards for issuing concealed carry permits.
46% : New York is among a half-dozen states that had key provisions of its gun laws invalidated by the high court because of a requirement for applicants to prove they had "proper cause" for a permit.
37% : As part of the "war on drugs" -- a consequential, anti-crime legislative agenda that Biden championed as a U.S. senator -- an estimated hundreds of thousands of convicted drug offenders had their access to federal financial aid delayed or denied, including Pell Grants and student loans.
21% : "It's sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job," Biden said before a crowd of more than 500 at Wilkes University.

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