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.
Federal Government Funds Gun Violence Research for Third Straight Year
Last week saw one bright spot in the passage of the $1.5 trillion dollar budget: Congress allocated “$25 million allocation for gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. It’s the third year in a row for federal gun violence research funding since it was restarted in 2019 after a decades-long embargo.”
Ethan's Law Now Has Bipartisan Support
Ethan's law/HR 748 which is nearly identical to Maine's own firearm safe storage law, and which will protect kids nationwide from unsecured, loaded firearms, now has BI-PARTISAN CO-SPONSORSHIP!