The Economic Cost of Gun Violence In Minnesota
Gun violence in Minnesota exacts a high physical, emotional, and financial toll on our family, friends, and neighbors.
Gun violence in Minnesota exacts a high physical, emotional, and financial toll on our family, friends, and neighbors.
Firearm suicide is a public health crisis. More than 24,000 individuals in the United States died by firearm suicide in 2018.
A tragically common and dangerous community response to events like the Buffalo Clinic shooting has been to buy more guns…
The most dangerous gap in firearms laws today is the “private seller” loophole. Although federal law requires licensed firearms dealers to perform background checks in all gun sales, it does not require unlicensed private sellers
Protect Minnesota analyzed Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) reports on permit to carry applications submitted by the Sheriff’s department in each Minnesota county for the years 2006-2016. Here are our findings.
Guns are the only product sold to consumers that are not regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Guns are designed to inflict harm and kill people (or animals in the case of hunting).
More anger in Minnesota: a fatal shooting at a St. Paul law office involving an angry man who decided to “settle” his differences with his lawyer by shooting the law clerk sitting in the office.
Let’s talk about the oft promoted myth by the gun lobbyists that closing the private seller loophole in our gun laws will just inevitably and certainly lead to gun registration followed by, of course, confiscation
