Yet in the case of firearms, the gun lobby (enabled by craven politicians) has for years tried to block even research on how to reduce gun deaths.
Similarly as in the case of firearms, it is prohibited to carry these weapons to court buildings, demonstrations and mass meetings.
In a review of firearm deaths in the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office (Detroit, Michigan, USA) over 10-year period from 1990 to 2000, there was an average of 500 cases of firearm deaths per year.
But again, we're nowhere near the level of scientific funding of other issues when you consider that there has been the equivalent of only one major NIH research grant for every 1 million cases of firearm injury per decade.
In the case of a firearm for self-defense, the applicant must also formally declare why a gun is needed and have that argument approved by the police.
On Tuesday he was convicted in a separate case of possessing firearms, which is prohibited under Maldivian law.
The force, which has around 31,000 officers, has been dogged by the same claims ever since, most recently in the case of former firearms officer Carol Howard.
Further research could be carried out exploring different surface for the successive reproduction of the marks of firing pin and breech face in case of malfunctioning of firearm.
But in case of malfunctioning of firearm, experts have to adopt different methods to link fired cartridge cases and fired bullets with the suspected firearm.
Results: Between May 1 , 1996 and June 30, 2000, 216 cases of unintentional firearm injury were identified, 3.8% of the shootings documented during the study period.
