Why are Bump-Stocks Still Legal?
A year after the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history, bump-stocks as unregulated as ever. The Trace reported : But on the one-year anniversary of…
How Gun Owners Store Their Weapons
From Harvard’s Journalists Resource Center: Households with guns have a higher likelihood of gun injury, including homicide and suicide. Research indicates that around 7 percent of children in the United States…
7 Tips for Journalists Covering Guns
The Journalists Resource Center at Harvard called me to get some ideas for this month’s issue focused on covering guns. They produced a nicely done tip-sheet:
An economic theory for the rise of gun violence in the 80’s
The popular trope is that the rise in American gun violence in the 1980’s had direct links to drug trafficking, especially cocaine and crack sales. But…
“End Family Fire”
The Ad Council is debuting a new public service ad that focuses on loaded guns in homes. The NYTimes reports: “Family fire,” a phrase created for…
Exactly HOW dangerous are plastic guns?
Judges in three states moved in to ban the publication of blueprints to a 3-D plastic gun today. But there are some details that you may…
NRA sues Seattle over “safe storage” gun law
The NRA sued the Mayor and Police Chief of Seattle over the city’s new “safe storage” gun law that would assess hefty fines against Seattle gun owners…
