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    President Obama’s latest executive actions on gun control are too little, too late.

President Obama’s latest executive actions on gun control are too little, too late.

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Fed up with Congressional inaction, this week President Obama announced a series of new executive actions to tighten gun control measures by expanding and improving the speed of background checks and providing more investment into gun safety technology. Mark Gius argues that because of the way that the Federal background check system works, as well as a lack of […]

Concealed carry laws and assault weapons bans do not have a significant effect on the gun-related murder rate at the state level

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In the wake of the Newtown massacre, 2013 saw a reinvigorated debate about the need for gun control legislation, most prominently featuring calls to renew the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and to enact concealed carry laws. Mark Gius looks at the effects of these two types of restrictions on the gun-related murder rate. He finds that the assault weapons ban […]

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