NY legislation would require social media and search engine history to buy/renew a handgun permit
Newsweek reports: A proposed bill in the New York State Senate could mean that anyone wanting to buy a pistol or renew their permit will be…
Kavanaugh’s First SCOTUS case involves Guns
On his first day sitting on the Supreme Court, Justice Kavanaugh will hear arguments in a case involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. The NYT describes…
How Japan Regulates Guns and Records 10 Guns Deaths a Year
BusinessInsider takes us to Japan where the country has strict gun control laws that produce noteworthy results. If Japanese people want to own a gun, they…
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…
