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Mar 14, 2023 · Sec. 3 . Additional Agency Actions to Reduce Gun Violence . (a) The Attorney General shall develop and implement a plan to: (iv) support efforts to modernize and make permanent the Undetectable ...
Mar 2, 2018 · This is partly a result of congressional appropriations language (the so-called Dickey Amendment, renewed continuously since its introduction in 1996) that chilled U.S. government investment in gun policy research until December 2019, when Congress appropriated $25 million to study gun violence and prevention.
Jan 10, 2023 · Using mortality data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that there were 24,576 total homicides in the United States in 2020 for a rate of 7.46 per 100,000 people; of these, 19,384 (79 percent) were caused by a firearm, for a rate of 5.88 per 100,000 people (CDC, 2022a).
Feb 8, 2024 · On May 7, 2021, the Department of Justice announced it had issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would update the definitions of “firearm” and related parts for the first time since 1968. The proposed rule would modernize the definition of “frame or receiver” and help close a regulatory loophole associated with the un-serialized ...
Jun 10, 2022 · Gun control had rarely been much of a political issue in Norway—where gun laws are viewed as tough, but ownership rates are high—until a right-wing extremist killed seventy-seven people in ...
Jul 11, 2022 · Americans are largely supportive of the new gun law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (64%) approve of the new gun law, including 32% who strongly approve. Just 21% say they disapprove of the law, including 11% who strongly disapprove; 15% are not sure.
The Office of Gun Violence Prevention builds on historic actions taken by President Biden to end gun violence in our country: including signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most ...