Colorado is one of 19 states that have laws in place to prevent individuals believed to pose a threat from obtaining guns. But a preventive order needs to be petitioned before it can be issued.
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Two states had guns directly on the ballot in midterm election initiatives. Voters moved state laws in opposite directions.
Election-related violence isn’t unheard of in the US. A scholar of gun laws explains how the threat is only increased by allowing people to carry firearms as they vote.
A recent French Senate report calling on a ban on alcohol use while hunting has prompted the wrath of the country’s hunting lobby. Do its arguments hold water?
Recent news reports highlight rising rates of gun crime in two-thirds of England and Wales’s police jurisdictions.
A burst of federal funding is letting Indianapolis expand existing efforts and try promising new approaches that other cities have developed.
Historically, most mass shootings in South Africa have been associated with three main things: gang conflicts, rivalries in the minibus taxi sector and factional or inter-group feuds.
A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
Congress has pushed through its first gun control legislation in 30 years. Included in the legislation is a provision to expand a firearm ban to dating partners accused of domestic violence.
The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
The share price of gun-makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger both jumped after the Uvalde massacre. In the past, gun-makers were punished after a shooting, but things have changed.
A closer look at firearms sales reveals some interesting trends that should be part of America’s ongoing conversation about the root causes of gun violence.
A school shooting in a small Texas town was almost as deadly as the worst such event in US history. Such shootings have increased in frequency over the last few years.
With school shootings in 2021 at the highest they’ve ever been, experts on the topic offer advice about what to do about it.
Important differences mark the gun control policies of the Conservative and Liberal parties, in particular.
A scholar of untraceable firearms explains what they are and why President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to restrict their manufacture and use.
Stricter gun control laws may make mass shootings slightly less common, but other policies may work better to prevent mass shooting deaths.
The gun problem in Canada stems from sharing the world’s longest undefended border with the country that has the largest number of guns in civilian hands.
Gun violence as a whole is much more common, and much more deadly, than mass shootings are.
Why do some gun owners insist on referring to the Montréal Massacre shooter by his birth name?
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Regents' Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Completed PhD with the focus on 'Criminal armourers and illegal firearm supply in England and Wales', University of Brighton
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Visiting Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University