it had the third-lowest gun death rate in the nation. Since his election in 2017, Governor Phil Murphy has made gun violence prevention a hallmark of his tenure in office, signing several new firearms regulations into law including a red flag law and a law requiring private firearms transactio...
Rhode Island’s firearm laws are stricter than those in many other states. Lawmakers strive to balance public safety and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, a challenging task in a country often divided over gun control. Federal law imposes limited regulations on gun purchases and ownership, ...
"These are commonsense regulations that will make sure gun dealers have basic security measures in place, maintain inventory and keep records of who they sell guns and ammunition to." The ordinance proposed by the board applies to gun and ammunition dealers in the unincorporated area of Los ...
And although arms trafficking is itself illegal in both the United States and Mexico, each country has been able to do little domestically to curb the flow of weapons across the Southern border. In particular, lenient gun control regulations in the United States have encouraged Mexican cartels to...
Which states have the strictest (and loosest) gun regulations around? This graphic by Elbie Bentley sets the ground for comparing gun laws across America before the impact of the Supreme Court's ruling can be fully understood. It uses 2021 data from Giffords Law Center and contrasts against ...
This blizzard of weapons regulations makes the contemporary inability to enact similar laws seem both ahistorical and contrary to the fundamental goal of protecting the public and preserving public order. This history matters for at least two reasons: First, the new standard for jud...
Permit requirements and bans on sales to minors were the most effective of the regulations analyzed.” [32] According to a Mar. 10, 2016 Lancet study, implementing federal universal background checks could reduce firearm deaths by a projected 56.9%; background checks for ammunition purchases ...
Photo by iStock.com/CHUYN COREY:So, as a professional firearms trainer, what level of gun regulations, in your humble opinion, do you think is appropriate? And to add to that, what about mental illness and how you think that should be handled, or the red flag laws?
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the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the right to bear arms as an individual right to own guns for self-defense and other lawful reasons. In assessing the constitutionality of laws that restrict the possession of firearms, the focus is on whether the law is consistent with regulations of guns...