Which Gun Laws Work? [PSMag.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/23/154:00 AM

Which gun-control laws work? This is a hard question to answer with research, not least because gun-control science is so politically unpopular that it often suffers from a lack of funding. A review published this month, however, promises some answers.

Daniel Webster of Johns Hopkins University and Garen Wintemute of the University of California-Davis reviewed 28 studies about the effects of laws that require firearms-buyers to apply for licenses and sellers to run background checks, in addition to other checks on who buys guns. The studies represent more than a decade of work by various researchers; they were published anywhere between 1999 and 2014. The review is freely available to read here, but below are some of the top takeaways.

[For more of this story, written by Francie Diep, go to http://www.psmag.com/politics-.../which-gun-laws-work]

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