Millions of people who shoot, for work or leisure, risk lead poisoning, according to new research.
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As automobile technology advanced, so did our safety measures. UC Denver and MIT sociologists explain how to do the same with guns.
All sides in the debate on gun control in the United States are quick to point to numbers they say back their arguments. But are they playing fair with those figures?
Do guns change the ways that people engage with each other? A gun violence researcher went to Missouri to find out.
President Obama’s call for better electronic gun-safety systems put a spotlight on the technologies currently in the R&D pipeline that aim to make sure only authorized users can fire a gun.
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