Lax Gun Ownership Laws Could Impact Ability Of High-Risk Individuals To Purchase Firearms (via
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Sixty percent of persons incarcerated for gun crimes in the thirteen U.S. states with the most lax standards for legal firearm ownership were not legally prohibited from possessing firearms when they committed the crime that led to their incarceration. According to the study by researchers at the Johns…
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