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    Regulating Gun Sales: An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
    Regulating Gun Sales: An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
    Regulating Gun Sales: An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
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    Regulating Gun Sales: An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    By Daniel W Webster, Jon S Vernick, Emma E McGinty and

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    This excerpt from the “masterful, timely, data-driven” study of the gun control debate examines the potential of stronger purchasing laws (Choice).

    As the debate on gun control continues, evidence-based research is needed to answer a crucial question: How do we reduce gun violence? One of the biggest gun policy reforms under consideration is the regulation of firearm sales and stopping the diversion of guns to criminals. This selection from the major anthology of studies Reducing Gun Violence in America presents compelling evidence that stronger purchasing laws and better enforcement of these laws result in lower gun violence.

    Additional material for this edition includes an introduction by Michael R. Bloomberg and Consensus Recommendations for Reforms to Federal Gun Policies from the Johns Hopkins University.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781421411729
    Regulating Gun Sales: An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America, Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

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      Regulating Gun Sales - Daniel W Webster

      Regulating Gun Sales

      Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick,

      Emma E. McGinty, and Ted Alcorn

      AN EXCERPT FROM

      Reducing Gun Violence in America

      Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

      EDITED BY Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH

      and Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH

      Center for Gun Policy and Research

      Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

      Visit our website for more information and to purchase the complete book.

      © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press

      All rights reserved. Published 2013

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      The Johns Hopkins University Press

      2715 North Charles Street

      Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363

      www.press.jhu.edu

      ISBN 13: 978-1-4214-1172-9

      ISBN 10: 1-4214-1172-5

      Regulating Gun Sales originally appeared as chapter 8, Preventing the Diversion of Guns to Criminals through Effective Firearm Sales Laws, in Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.

      The Library of Congress Control Number for the complete book is 2013930408.

      A catalog record for the book is available from the British Library.

      Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of the complete book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or specialsales@press.jhu.edu.

      The Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Michael R. Bloomberg

      Regulating Gun Sales

      Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick, Emma E. McGinty, and Ted Alcorn

      Consensus Recommendations for Reforms to Federal Gun Policies

      Introduction

      Michael R. Bloomberg

      On December 14, 2012, a deranged young man pulled into the parking lot of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and then shot his way into the building with a high-capacity semi-automatic rifle. The slaughter of 6 adults and 20 children really broke the country’s heart, and for many Americans this is the straw that has broken the camel’s back.

      Since the Sandy Hook massacre, more than 100 mayors from across the country have joined the bipartisan coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The total number of mayors involved is now more than 800. As of January 14, 2013, roughly one million Americans have signed on to the coalition’s I Demand a Plan campaign against gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden will announce his recommendations for action to President Barack Obama this week. The vice president knows that as horrific as Sandy Hook has been, as have all the other seemingly endless episodes of mass violence, we experience that level of carnage, or worse, every single day across our country, because every day of the year, an average of 33 Americans are murdered with guns.

      Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th

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