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Gun Industry Divestment Campaign
Cross posted from Santa Barbara Coalition Against Gun Violence Please join the Coalition Against Gun Violence (CAGV) in a Campaign to Divest the University of California system of its holdings in the...
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Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence Releases Annual Gun Law State Scorecard
Every year, more than 30,000 Americans die from gun violence. But there’s more to the story. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has been fighting for smart gun laws for over 20 years, and we’ve...
View ArticleTreaty Regulating Global Arms Trade Takes Effect
A landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade came into force last month, reports the Associated Press. The new treaty seeks to stop weapons sales to dictators, terrorists and...
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2014 Stories on Health Impact of Corporations-Part II
Last week, I wrote about some of the 2014 news stories that revealed how the auto, pharmaceutical and alcohol industries had harmed health. In this post, I turn to some of the top stories in last...
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Behind Closed Doors in Vegas, Militarized Gun Industry Sells, Sells, Sells
Read the full story at Huffington Post credit Last week, a man was arrested in Ohio for an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to attack the U.S. Capitol with gunfire and pipe bombs. According to the...
View ArticleJudge Suspends City Gun Laws
A Dauphin County (Pennsylvania) judge has ordered Harrisburg to stop enforcing three of its gun-control ordinances, reports The Burg, a community magazine in Harrisburg. Judge Andrew H. Dowling found...
View ArticleGun deaths in New Mexico
About 34 percent of New Mexicans say they have guns at home, lower than in other states where the number can be closer to 50 percent. However, New Mexico is one of the states with the least amount of...
View ArticleAre gun silencers a threat to safety?
A bill under consideration in Illinois would make gun silencers legal, reports ABC’s Eyewitness News. “The suppressor makes a firearm a safer gun,” said Josh Waldron, CEO of SilencerCo. “It protects...
View ArticleHow New Jersey’s Smart Gun Law Backfired
Bloomberg News reports that a law intended to encourage safer, digitally enhanced firearms has actually impeded their development. Gun store owner Andy Raymond gained passing fame last year for posting...
View ArticleMove Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to FBI?
Following an investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the Center for American Progress released a report that outlines the challenges that the bureau faces in...
View ArticleInteractive Map Documents Rising Tide of State Preemption
by Grassroots Change Since the 1980s, preemption has been used to undermine grassroots movements across public health issues including tobacco, nutrition, housing and gun violence. But over the last...
View ArticleA Common-Sense Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
Every year, wrote Tim Burgess, the Seattle City Council president, in Capitol Hill Times, taxpayers in Seattle pay for millions of dollars of emergency medical care for people who have been shot. It’s...
View ArticleSeattle passes laws to tax guns and ammo, require report of stolen firearms
The New York Daily News reports that the Seattle City Council unanimously approved two laws designed to curb gun violence and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for the city. The “gun...
View ArticleSurgeon general: I have no regrets about calling gun violence public health...
The nation’s chief doctor said he doesn’t regret saying gun violence is a public health issue, reports Associated Press. Vivek Murthy called his difficult confirmation process a consequence of speaking...
View ArticleNRA and gun industry sue over Seattle’s adoption of “gun violence tax”
The Associated Press reports that National Rifle Association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, (the trade association of gun makers) and the Second Amendment Foundation sued the city of Seattle...
View ArticleHow US gun control compares to the rest of the world
If NRA claims about the efficacy of guns in reducing crime were true, the US would have the lowest homicide rate among industrialized nations instead of the highest rate. In The Conversation, John...
View ArticleBadger Gun Trial Decision Has Firearm Industry On Edge
A landmark lawsuit ruling in Wisconsin holding a gun shop liable for the shooting of two Milwaukee police officers could have national implications, reports NewsChannel 6 in Wisconsin. This ruling...
View ArticleCalifornia ballot measure will bypass NRA on gun control
An op ed in the Sacramento Bee notes that year after year, Americans are horrified by the relentless gun violence in this country – and feel despair that it can’t be stopped. Now California’s Lt. Gov....
View ArticleTime to repeal gun industry’s exceptional legal immunity
Gun violence has been a problem for a long time, writes Allen Rostron in The Conversation, but recent shootings in Paris and San Bernardino have focused attention on the issue. A key way to ensure...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed Against Oregon Dealer That Transferred Gun Used in Murder...
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced that the family of Kirsten Englund is filing a lawsuit against World Pawn Exchange for transferring multiple firearms to a straw purchaser, which were...
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