Reports on the results of a study on the effectiveness of gun safe-storage laws in the United States. Firearm mortality from 1979 to 1994; Possible impact of the laws to gun-related homicide and suicide.EBSCO_AspBrown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter...
Laws related to weapons, including guns, can be complex. That’s true in New Jersey as well as the rest of the country. It can be hard to understand what’s allowed in your state and how state laws and federal laws co-exist in this space. Add to the existing complexity of gun laws...
The Vegas shooter reportedly passed a background check just recently, and there are simply too many guns in America, and too many ways for people to get them, to stop these things from happening except in the very long haul. In Washington, meanwhile, everyone seems to realize ...
Here are five types of gun laws and which shootings they could have addressed. Ban on straw purchases Seeks to stop someone from buying a gun for someone else.Read more The two shooters at Columbine High School, both minors during the planning phase, had an older friendpurchase a ...
How Many in America: From Guns to Ghost Towns Can you take a guess as to how many public schools are in the U.S.? Do you have any clue as to how many billionaires might be residing there? Read on to find out—and learn a thing or two about each of these selection’s cultural ...
The future of guns in America With an election that seems all but certain to place Joe Biden in the White House, the future of guns in America seems uncertain. His campaign has certainly spelled out a gun control plan, but one things for certain: In the muck of 2024, millions are turni...
an eighteen-year-old with a long gun:three people dead and many wounded from gunfirein Philadelphia; a mass shooting in Chattanoogaleaving three people dead; parties in Arizona, Virginia, and South Carolina leaving a total of at least three deaths and 22 people injured, many of them children...
Firearms are pervasive in America but we do have reason for hope. Research has shown us there are effective ways to prevent or reduce the risks of harm, just as our country did to improve motor vehicle safety. This is a public health epidemic that we can do something about, through a co...
Lawmakers also raised the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 and turned the ownership of bump stocks, which could make a semiautomatic rifle fire more rapidly, into a felony. However, in more recent years, some legislators have worked to weaken gun laws in the state, including...
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