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The surge in gun sales during the pandemic has waned in 2022. Unadjusted firearm background checks – a rough proxy of gun sales – surged from 28.4 million in 2019 to 39.7 million in 2020...
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Some U.S. cities became increasingly more dangerous during the pandemic as the violent victimization rate rose in urban areas from 2020 to 2021, according to Department of Justice data. Against the...
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Oregon appears to be on the brink of becoming the latest state to introduce stricter gun control measures in the wake of the nation’s seemingly-endless stream of mass shootings. The state House of...
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The Oregon House of Representatives passed this week a gun control package, which would increase the minimum age to buy most guns to 21 — with the exception of some hunting rifles — and...
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Any single individual, no matter their station in life, is capable of altering the course of human history with little more than a motive and a gun. The world as we know it today is in no small way...
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Through the first three months of 2023, roughly 8.1 million firearm background checks were conducted in the United States, according to data compiled by the FBI. That figure is more or less in line...
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Last month, President Biden signed a new executive order designed to increase the likelihood that background checks be initiated before guns are sold in the United States. And though many polls...
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In recent years, handguns – specifically semi-automatic pistols – have overtaken rifles as America’s favorite firearms. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and...
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Tennessee continues to reel from the school shooting last week that left three children and three faculty dead. That event was just the latest mass killing in the United States – an event which...
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