US GUN LAWS Home Full Name* Email Address* Phone Number* Message Details* Gun Rights Restored Criminal felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, drug offenses, or a dishonorable discharge from the military can result in prohibition of owning or even possessing firearms. Although you may ...
“To get the complete set is incredibly expensive for researchers, so no one uses it,” says Andrew Morral, director of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research at the RAND Corporation in Washington DC. “The federal government could do better at aggregating data and making it ...
Objective To determine whether restrictiveness-permissiveness of state gun laws or gun ownership are associated with mass shootings in the US. Design Cross sectional time series. Setting and population US gun owners from 1998-2015. Exposure An annual rating between 0 (completely restrictive) and 100...
The researchers' estimates are based on an analysis of 2012 data from the U.S. government and the World Health Organization. The government study was published Tuesday in theJournal of the American Medical Association. "If we brought mortality fromcar crashes, firearm injuries and drug poisonings...
Gun ownership in the U.S. is protected by the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, which allows citizens to own firearms and form a militia if necessary. Outside of the 2nd Amendment, gun laws in the U.S. vary from state to state, and gun owners are subject to the laws of the ...
(1754-1763), the Northwest Territory and Canada. The original Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formed a government under the Articles of Confederation in 1781, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789. The nation soon began ...
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said, “Proposing more gun laws while failing to enforce the thousands we already have is not a serious solution for reducing crime. Nor do we believe that government should dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families.” ...
Right after we passed strict Gun laws, as a result there have been almost no mass shootings in UK since, why cant USA Government (People) do same? Answer is of course NRA that spend $30-Mill for Trump election. So will US Government (Politicians) do nothing again? Or will they brand...
While proposals to overhaul gun laws – such a ban on assault-style weapons or high-capacity magazines – face steep odds at the federal level, there are some areas of bipartisan agreement. Whether that’s enough to break congressional gridlock is yet to be seen. ...
Researchers from Washington University at St Louis’ Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute presented this argument to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2018, saying that the US government’s “failure” to prevent and reduce gun-related violence through “reasonable and effective domes...