New York has, through its elected representatives, made reasoned judgments about the ability of its citizens to carry concealed firearms based on its own assessment of the dangers posed by these weapons and the particular public safety needs of its residents.
"New York has, through its elected representatives, made reasoned judgments about the ability of its citizens to carry concealed firearms based on its own assessment of the dangers posed by these weapons and the particular public safety needs of its residents," Schneiderman writes in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev).
Specifically, it would force nearly every state in the Union -- including those, like New York, with reasonable restrictions on firearm ownership and transport, that are essential to public safety -- to abandon its own gun laws by allowing out-of-state visitors to carry concealed firearms based on their home state's less safe laws, rather than those of the state they are entering.
Researchers are even exploring systems that can detect the presence of concealed firearms or explosives based on the gait of an individual, or even their radar signature.
I don't even know if that's a real gun, considering most of my firearm knowledge is based on The Wire.
Such information is relevant to federal firearms policies that are based on the nature of an intimate relationship.
"If broad bans on firearms can be upheld based on the conjecture that the public might feel safer (while being no safer at all), then the 2nd Amendment guarantees nothing".
Studies reporting lifetime medical and productivity costs range from $48 to $175 billion (Corso et al., 2007; Lee et al., 2014; Miller, 2012; Fowler et al., 2015; Allareddy et al., 2012), with differences based on the source of firearm incidence data, types of firearm injuries included, sources of cost estimates, and types of costs included in the estimate.
On average, counties in the top quartile when it comes to the prevalence of guns — determined by a proxy that academics use based on the ratio of firearms suicides to overall suicides — had an age-adjusted homicide-rate that was 63 percent higher than those in the bottom quartile.
Much as in the general population (Azrael et al., 2017), reasons for gun ownership differ among veterans based on the type of firearm owned.
