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Everytown for Gun Safety ranked all 50 states on gun safety by comparing the strength of their gun laws to their gun death rates and found 14 states labeled “national failures” on gun policy ...
The Giffords Law Center, founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), provides an annual ranking of all 50 states based on the strength of their gun laws. California and New Jersey sit…
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
Gun violence in the United States; Gun politics in the United States. Gun laws in the United States by state; Right to keep and bear arms in the United States; Suicide in the United States; Crime in the United States. List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate; List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate
California gun safety regulations going into effect Jan. 1. In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of laws aimed at strengthening gun safety regulations.Those include requiring ...
In July 2014, Alaska adopted the pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 rifle as its state firearm. The bill, sponsored by Senate President Charlie Huggins, refers to the gun as the "rifleman's rifle." The bill says the gun helped Alaskans "establish a firm foothold" in the wilderness between 1930 and 1963. [6]
A report on U.S. gun violence in 2021 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that states with the highest gun death rates "tend to be states in the South or Mountain West ...
In a 2015 study conducted by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, state gun laws were examined based on various policy approaches, and were scored on grade-based and ranked scales. [130] States were rated positively for having passed stricter measures and stronger gun laws.