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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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.
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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
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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.
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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