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The University of Michigan will launch a new Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention to generate knowledge and advance innovative solutions that reduce firearm injury, a public health crisis that leads to more than 100 deaths per day across the United States. "Firearm violence led to nearly 40,00

View Comments The University of Michigan is launching a new Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, which it says will "generate knowledge and advance innovative solutions that reduce firearm injury, a public health crisis that leads to more than 100 deaths per day across the United States." The university is also putting $10 million in to fund the center for the next five years. “Firearm violence led to nearly 40,000 deaths nationwide last year, and the stark reality that we all must come ...

David Chipman views law-abiding gun owners as criminals-in-waiting.

A coalition of 20 states sent a letter to Senate leaders Tuesday, urging them to reject President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the DOJ's ATF.

© Getty Images Seventeen Democratic attorneys general wrote to top senators on Tuesday urging them to confirm President Biden The attorneys general wrote in support of David Chipman, who spent more than two decades as an ATF special agent before joining Giffords, a gun control group formed by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) after she survived a 2011 shooting. "As the chief law and law enforcement officers in our respective states and territories, many of us regularly work with ATF...

NationofChange Ending gun violence in the US We can have guns on a limited basis – to provide societal and individual protection, but in a way that will prevent people from using the weapons for illegal or violent purposes. Switzerland has some of the most liberal gun laws in the world.  And yet it has few gun killings.  “The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 attempted homicides with firearms. The c...

Font Size: Dozens of House Republicans urged the Senate to oppose President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) in a letter Monday. Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, along with 68 other House Republicans, wrote a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky urging them to oppose ATF nominee David Chipman’s confirmation for being a threat to Americans’ Second Amendment rights. T...

The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Police (ISP) for failure to process firearms permit renewal applications within the

Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com Apr 29, 2021 | 12:28 PM (The Center Square) – The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Police (ISP) for failure to process firearms permit renewal applications within the lawful 30 days, which they call a Second Amendment violation. Holders of expired Illinois Firearms Owners Identification (FOID) cards or Concealed Carry Licenses recently received another 150-day extension because the ISP is still trying to...

It has been over a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court has taken a Second Amendment case, which has been far too long. That reality was highlighted by Justice Clarence Thomas in 2018 when he chided his fellow justices for failing to take up a gun-rights case, stating, “The right to keep and bear arms is apparently this Court’s constitutional orphan.” Furthermore, it wasn’t as if there was a dearth of Second Amendment cases demanding the Court’s attention, especially giv...