Senior ATF official proposes loosening gun regulations
The second-highest-ranking official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has written a proposal to reduce gun regulations, including examining a possible end to the ban on...
View ArticleGuns kill 40,000 Brazilians a year. Some lawmakers think more guns will make...
Brazil has a murder problem. It also has a gun problem. Both could get worse if some Brazilian lawmakers have their way, reports Public Radio International. Most of the roughly 60,000 Brazilian...
View ArticleIllinois Senate passes gun dealer licensing bill, moves to Illinois House
The Illinois Senate passed a gun dealer licensing bill, known as Senate Bill 1657, in a 30-21 vote, according to Democratic Senator Don Harmon’s press office, reports WABC 7 Eyewitness News in...
View ArticleWhy is the market ignoring the fact that gun sales are booming?
Just because gun sales aren’t booming at the same rate they were during the biggest year ever for firearms manufacturers, that doesn’t mean they’re not still rising, writes Fox Business News. Yet the...
View ArticleTraders, guns, and money: The effects of mass shootings on stock prices of...
A new study in PLOS ONE investigates how mass shootings influence the stock price of firearms manufacturers. While it is well known that mass shootings lead to increased firearms sales, the response...
View ArticleHe’s a danger to the gun industry. Here’s why.
Gary Wintemute doesn’t look like a slayer of gunslingers, writes the Sacramento Bee in a profile of one of the nation’s leading researchers on the gun industry. He’s a bespectacled professor of 65, and...
View ArticleChildhood Firearm Injuries in the United States
A study in Pediatrics examines fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries among children aged 0 to 17 in the United States, including intent, demographic characteristics, trends, state-level patterns, and...
View ArticleBroadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms...
Firearm violence injures or kills 100,000 Americans each year. Research on firearm violence tends to focus on two elements-the host (i.e., victims of firearm violence) and the environment (i.e., gun...
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The NRA is smaller than you’d think – so why does it wield such influence?
Credit Why is the National Rifle Association so powerful? asks The Guardian in an in-depth analysis of the political role of the NRA in resisting efforts to reduce gun violence. Here’s a clue: it’s...
View ArticleBank of America takes aim at gun-making clients
Bank of America Corp became the latest financial heavyweight to take aim at gunmakers, saying it would ask clients who make assault rifles how they can help end mass shootings like last week’s massacre...
View ArticleDick’s Sporting Goods Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles, Set Under-21...
The Washington Post reports that Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell assault-style firearms, will ban high-capacity magazines and will not sell any guns to people younger than 21, the company...
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Pension Funds Under Pressure to Sell Off Investments in Gun-Makers
Credit Since the mass killing at a Parkland, Fla., high school earlier this month, many teachers have called on their state pension funds to sell their stakes in gun-makers, reports National Public...
View ArticleU.S. Shootings: Gun Industry Killing More People Overseas
In every measurable way, the U.S is head honcho of the global violence industry. I live next door to the world’s biggest gun manufacturer, writes Tamara Pearson for Common Dreams. Here in Mexico, the...
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A Bid to Increase Gun Exports, Stalled After Sandy Hook, Moves Ahead
Credit When cigarette, Coca Cola or whiskey sales fall in the United States, manufacturers look to recoup their losses by promoting sales of their lethal but legal products overseas, especially to...
View ArticleBEYOND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: Expanding The Scope Of Commercial...
In its first decade, research on commercial determinants of health (CDoH) focused heavily on the role of the tobacco, alcohol, and food industries in the rising burden of widening inequities in...
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