…buyers to have gun permits, which are only issued after a background check is completed. A brief history of federal regulation of gun sales The Gun Control Act of 1968…
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…in 277 cities. Worcester, Massachusetts, held the most gun buybacks over the period studied — 14 buyback events. The gun buybacks analyzed “have done little to reduce gun crime or…
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…funded, national research on gun violence because Congress in 1996 passed legislation prohibiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using funds to “advocate or promote gun control.” As…
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…legally buying guns, the new law tightens — but does not close — the so-called “boyfriend loophole.” Federal law prohibits legal gun ownership among people convicted of a misdemeanor domestic…
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…Control and Prevention. Most gun deaths — 54% in 2020 — are suicides. Almost 43% of people killed by guns in 2020 were homicide victims. 2. Most guns made in…
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…violence dried up after a mid-1990s law banned federal research to advocate or promote gun control: “For every hundred articles published on sepsis, only about four are published on gun…
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…also, though, lead to gun control laws that would make the family feel like at least their child didn’t die in vain. You have to really talk about the spectrum…
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…of gun control in America, beginning with the Gun Control Act of 1968. The Act identifies categories of people prohibited from purchasing firearms under Section 22—convicted felons, the mentally ill,…
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…studies have investigated injuries sustained from gun violence, but Langdorf points out a distinct difference between injuries from mass shootings and those from neighborhood gun violence. “The majority of mass…
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…inflation, but they don’t always cover the interaction between inflation and earnings. Gun buybacks: What the research says: Gun buybacks allow gun owners to trade their firearms to law enforcement,…
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