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Donald Steiny / June 13, 2015

American Public Health Association – Association Between Connecticut’s Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides

Association Between Connecticut’s Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides Kara E. Rudolph, PhD, MPH, MHS, Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, Jon S. Vernick, JD, and Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPHKara E. Rudolph ...

Donald Steiny / September 20, 2015

American Public Health Association – Association Between Connecticut’s Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides

This is a test of the idea that all handguns have to have a permit, including ones bought at gun shows and from current gun owners. In Connecticut, it lowered ...

Donald Steiny / August 15, 2015

Bipartisan Support for Expanded Background Checks on Gun Sales | Pew Research Center

The majority of people are still for background checks at gun shows and for private sales (there are none now in many places). I am not convinced that preventing "mentally ill" ...

Donald Steiny / February 27, 2016

Marketing Guns to Children

"In 2015, at least 282 people were accidentally shot by a child under 18, according to the group Everytown for Gun Safety. This year, the count is already up to ...

Donald Steiny / February 20, 2016

What mother who watched her 12-year-old kill himself wants you to know | KSDK.com

Almost 15 years have passed since Patti Colbath walked into her backyard and saw her 12-year-old son Max put a handgun to his forehead and pull the trigger.It hasn’t gotten ...