An article last Tuesday about new federal rules on reporting the sale of multiple guns along the Southwest border misidentified the opponents of the regulations.
While the number of firearm applications does not correlate with the number of guns in the state -- since a buyer who has passed the background check can get multiple guns and the state does not track the number of firearm purchases -- as of November of this year, 279,149 firearm applications had been approved out of 285,424.
His testimony indicated that he did not understand how easy it was to buy multiple guns in the United States, compared with his home country.
There was evidence of a dose-response effect: compared to subjects living in homes with no guns, the relative risk was 3.4 (95% CI=1.5 7.6) among subjects with one gun and 3.9 (95% CI=2.0 7.8) among subjects with multiple guns in the home.
All the plaintiffs own multiple guns but keep them outside the city limits, the suit says.
The software can even tell whether multiple guns were used, or whether the shooter was moving as he pulled the trigger.
This is not a perfect measure, because a background check may not be followed by a sale or, conversely, may be the prelude to the purchase of multiple guns.
One of the most significant findings was the three-way association between individuals who owned multiple guns, carried a gun outside of the home and expressed a pattern of angry, impulsive behavior.
Their lawyers said the family kept multiple guns for hunting and defense at their home, which lies in the wilderness of northeast Washington state near the U.S.-Canadian border.
Local news websites have quoted police as saying the suspect is barricaded somewhere within the navy yard with "multiple guns".
