This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Why are the Moms wearing orange next week? No doubt inspired by the color scheme of a home improvement superpower, … Read more
By Jim Barrett [ED: We published this post back in 2013. The more things change, the more they stay the same. There’s been much written lately about the suicide rates in various states, depending on their relative firearms friendliness. The obvious implication is that, if only we had tougher gun laws, we’d have fewer suicides. … Read more
By Robert B. Young, MD Short answer: No. But you wouldn’t know that from the breathless media coverage of a recent study from the Boston University and Harvard’s T.C. Chan’s Schools of Public Health. “Household Gun Ownership and Youth Suicide Rates at the State Level, 2005–2015” was published online by the American Journal of Preventive MedicineJanuary 17. Suicide is a complex … Read more
Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men This will never do. Time to give men less accurate optics . . . Women in a new Marine Corps unit created to assess how female service members perform in combat were injured twice as often as men, less accurate with infantry … Read more
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