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The company handed over the $475 million ship to the Navy on Friday.<br\/><br\/>Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt in 2011, helped christen the ship in 2015. It&#8217;s part of a hotly debated program that congressional critics slam as flawed and too expensive but that Navy leaders defend as a critical new step in naval warfighting.<br\/><br\/>The 421-foot-long Giffords will be the ninth in a series of high-speed vessels designed to navigate in shallow coastal regions known as littoral waters. Sen. 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It&#8217;s part of a hotly debated program that congressional critics slam as flawed and too expensive but that Navy leaders defend as a critical new step in naval warfighting. <\/span><\/figcaption><figcaption> <span>Photo Credit: Brynn Anderson\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><br\/>The ship&#8217;s name also has become a target for conservatives who see it as promoting stricter gun laws, a cause Giffords has promoted. Some critics lampooned the ship as being gun-free, a bit of parody and fake news that was debunked on snopes.com.<br\/><br\/>The Navy said it chose to name the ship in honor of Giffords because of the perseverance she showed after the shooting.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;Courage comes in many, many forms \u2014 physical, mental, spiritual and political. 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