These states are responding to the Parkland shooting by trying to do something about gun control
These states are responding to the Parkland shooting by trying to do something about gun control
REBEKAH ENTRALGO at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/states-responding-parkland-shooting-with-gun-control-laws-0cfca1690fc9/
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The proposed state-level changes include various, middle-of-the road gun laws, including raising the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 and imposing a ban on bump stocks, the device that turns a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon and that was used in the Las Vegas shooting, which killed more than 50 people.
States have historically been more successful than Congress at moving forward with gun-related measures, according to the State Firearm Law project, which has analyzed gun laws between 1991 and 2016. But this year has seen an especially high number of proposed gun control measures on the state level.
“It’s way too early to draw conclusions about how successful these laws are going to be,” Michael Siegel, a Boston University School of Public Health professor and the head of the State Firearm Law project, told PBS News Hour. “But right now is very different because they are being considered in the first place.”
Although this list is not comprehensive of every state where lawmakers have considered gun measures, these are the states that have recently made notable progress in this policy area:
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