Looking beyond the familiar appeal of licensing and registration, it is important to explore what effect such measures could actually have on gun death and injury in the United States, as well as to examine how current licensing and registration…
Looking beyond the familiar appeal of licensing and registration, it is important to explore what effect such measures could actually have on gun death and injury in the United States, as well as to examine how current licensing and registration…
In general terms, licensing and registration proposals usually include the following components. License or Permit to Purchase Licenses or permits to purchase are designed to restrict those who can legally buy specific categories of firearms. Prior to obtaining a specified…
Historically, proposals for new gun control laws have almost always targeted the gun owner. Rarely have measures focused upstream, “behind the gun store counter,” on the industry and its products. Most recently, increased public attention has focused on the idea…
What it Can and Cannot Do Table of Contents Introduction Section One: Current United States Federal Law Section Two: Licensing and Registration Section Three: Unintended Consequences Section Four: A Better Way Conclusion Endnotes This is the full text of the…
Reports of Rising Import Applications In the summer of 1997, news outlets began reporting that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was poised to once again allow the import of the Israeli-made UZI assault rifle. The rifle was to…
A Tax-Funded Coordinating Mechanism Having developed its long-range survival strategy of building more shooting ranges to attract new shooters, the gun industry faced a threshold problem: How to pay for it? Jody L. Williams, a member of the Utah Wildlife…
“Everybody I’ve talked to has been against it. I’m a gun person. This is not anti-gun. This is anti-noise. I don’t want to worry about my sons going into the woods and being shot by a stray bullet.” – Terry…
“I think if you plan it well enough, you won’t shoot up any more trees than you have to, and many trees recover from being shot if you move the station around. You just can’t shoot the trees to pieces.…
“Until fairly recent years, most shooters wore no hearing protection. As a result, most shooters over 40 have some hearing loss. For many, it is a very significant and noticeable hearing loss. Most of us didn’t know how much damage…
The American gun industry is in big trouble. Hunting is fading as a sport. Guns are seen by most of the general public as either weapons of crime or dangerous toys owned only by a shrinking minority of Americans.a As a…