Insight: Guns in the COVID era: An expert discusses trends in gun sales and gun violence in pandemic America

Be sure to check out this excellent interview in the Portland Press Herald with Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine physician at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center and director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center, discussing the relationship between the massive surge in gun sales during the peak of the Covid 19 pandemic and the subsequent spike in firearm-involved crimes.

Notably. Dr. Wintermute, in discussing the profound danger from ghost guns, states: "I believe they’re going to be a huge problem nationwide, as they are in California. They can be manufactured by individuals in their homes. There’s a special milling machine that’s about the size of a desktop laser printer. I could have 10 of them in my office, and each one of them would produce the key component for a ghost gun about every 30 minutes. I can buy all the other parts on the open market."

We couldn't agree more, and that's why we will contine to push Congress and Maine's legislature to act now to ban the possession, manufacture and distribution of ghost guns before its too late.

https://www.pressherald.com/2022/03/27/insight-guns-in-the-covid-era/