The murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool in 2007 sparked a national debate on armed gangs – but what has changed 10 years on?
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How have state firearm laws changed over time? Over the past 27 years, some states have loosened the rules for gun owners and the gun industry, while others are getting stricter.
Reforming France’s intelligence and policing practices will be a big political battle.
Millions of people who shoot, for work or leisure, risk lead poisoning, according to new research.
3D printing still exists in a legal grey area. This area is slowly being defined as courts prosecute the first cases but, is current copyright and criminal law keeping up with the technology?
American attitudes toward smart guns are complex and do not necessarily follow the patterns we might expect.
Latest Queensland raids suggest criminals are potentially adopting 3D printers at an industrial scale
Voters in three states approved ballot measures on firearms. So what will these new laws do?
Two major trials in the killings of black victims in South Carolina start this week. Learn about the state’s past and present struggle with racial violence in this roundup.
The hyperbole about the Adler shotgun simply does not match with the facts. This is symptomatic of the generally poor quality of debate around firearm policy in Australia.
The current debate over the right to bear arms versus regulation is at a stalemate, but a new dialogue that focuses on the social burden of firearms might provide a new way forward.
After the Somme the British army was supplied with vastly more firepower than before. This would decide the course of this war.
As automobile technology advanced, so did our safety measures. UC Denver and MIT sociologists explain how to do the same with guns.
Gun makers are trying to dismiss the potentially precedent-setting suit, claiming a federal law gives them immunity.
The crimes of Brock Turner and Omar Mateen may be discussed as if they’re unrelated. They’re not.
The odds of recovering from a terrible experience are higher than you might think.
The 1996 shooting at a Scottish primary school had a lasting impact on UK gun control.
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.
Changes proposed by the president’s executive order are limited. Even Barack Obama admits they wouldn’t have stopped recent mass shootings.
Though the perpetrators of the mass shooting in California appear to have acquired their guns legally, the vast majority used in violent crimes are obtained illegally.
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Regents' Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
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