Confiscating firearms from alleged abusers might seem like a good idea, but it’s unlikely to make much of a difference.
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The ramifications of a US court case where parents of a school shooter have been prosecuted are explained by a legal expert.
Expect other states to pick up the civil-litigation torch.
Mexico claims that US firearm manufacturers are fueling illegal cross-border gun trafficking and violent crime abroad.
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the civility and structure of America.
Mass shootings have derailed other countries’ tourist industries.
Laws shielding from prosecution those who kill and maim citing self-defense have spread across the states and may be fueling a ‘shoot now, think later’ mindset among homeowners.
The Mass Casualty Commission into the mass shooting in Nova Scotia in 2020 makes several recommendations to meaningfully change Canada’s gun laws.
Secession talk evokes fears of a second Civil War. But one scholar says secession is already happening in the US under a variety of guises.
A significant number of county sheriffs across the US have a particular – and false – view of their role in defending Americans’ constitutional rights.
A recession in the US would lead to more workplace shootings.
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.
We have relatively strict, but not infallible, gun laws in Australia. So to stop 3D guns becoming more available, we need to look at stopping the digital design files.
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 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.
States with red flag laws saw fewer firearm deaths, on average, than states without them.
The shooters in the Buffalo and Uvalde massacres were both 18, and legally purchased assault rifles. This is fueling calls to raise the age when someone can purchase this weapon from 18 to 21.
The firearms industry pressure group is expert in preventing any reform of America’s weak gun ownership laws. Here’s why.
The nature of elected office combines with the lasting priorities of public opinion to put gun control on the back burner, even in times when it does get massive public attention.
Frequent mass shootings are a stain on the country’s international reputation. But it’s likely the latest episode will lead to more inaction on gun control.
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