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Gun Shows and the Gun Show Loophole:
Police, Mayors, Governors, and Legislators ProtestEasyGuns
Following
the Gun: Enforcing Federal Laws Against Firearms Traffickers
In this report: the ATF identified the top two sources of illegally
trafficked
guns as: 1) licensed dealers, and 2) gun shows. The ATF analyzed 1,530
firearms trafficking investigations during the period July 1996 -
December 1998
and found that gun shows were the source of approximately 26,000
illegally
diverted firearms.
GAO Report on
Trauma Care: The increasing costs of gun violence
injuries is causing the closing of trauma centers. Note - if this
link does not work, plase cut and paste this URL into your browser:
http://archive.gao.gov/d20t9/143946.pdf
"Students with guns were more likely than students
without guns to have alcohol-related problems, such as getting into fights attributed to drinking alcohol and being
arrested for drinking while intoxicated." (followed by this link:
Harvard School of Public Health researchers, "Guns and Gun Threats at
Colleges,"
"Why do we lie down for 3 minutes?" This was the amount of time it
took the Virginia Tech shooter to buy his gun and the mere minutes it
takes for dangerous individuals in the U.S. to buy guns.
"If no record retrieval problems emerge, most State instant approval systems are able to process a check and provide a final response to a dealer in less than 5
minutes. Some systems complete the checking process in less than 1 minute (see Jurisdictional summaries)."
Questions and Answers to Critical Gun Issues in the United States
GUNLAWS101
Why should loaded guns be allowed into our children's schools, when
they are not allowed into gunshows and our U.S. Congress? (Image from the Norfolk Gun Show)
