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Gun Show Regulations Work, Study Finds
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| Last Edited | kal Jun 12, 2007 06:50am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | California’s stringent weapons laws go a long way toward reducing illegal purchases at gun shows without alienating potential customers, finds a leading researcher in the prevention of firearm violence.
Garen Wintemute, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Davis, covertly observed and documented illegal gun sales at 28 gun shows; eight were in California, where shows are tightly regulated, and the rest were in Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Florida.
California requires that gun show promoters be licensed, while the other four states (the leading sources of guns used in crimes in California) don’t regulate shows at all.
Gun shows have long been suspected to be source of guns for criminals, but “before this no one, to my knowledge, has actually gone to these shows and observed what guns were being sold and to whom, or checked whether laws were being adhered to,” said Stephen Teret, director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who was not involved in this research.
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