What Closing the Gun-Show Loophole Won’t Do
It is an article of faith that closing the “gun-show loophole” would make America a safer place. But that is what it is: faith. In 2008, three criminologists (one of ...
Why Panic Gun Buying Is a Bad Thing
Since President Obama’s election in 2008, gun sales have been brisk. Actually, that’s an understatement; they have been phenomenal. In jest, a number of gun stores have referred to the ...
High-Capacity-Magazine Bans
Bans on high-capacity magazines (variously defined as those holding more than ten, fifteen, or twenty rounds) seem to be part of just about every law to ban assault weapons. The ...
Preventing Mass-Murder Tragedies: What Works, What Doesn’t
There is a drumbeat of demand for a new federal assault-weapons ban to prevent more tragedies like the one that happened in Connecticut. If we had not tried the experiment, ...