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By Leah Libresco “Leah Libresco is a statistician and former newswriter at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism site. She is the author of “Arriving at Amen.” Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting […]

“More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest figure ever. 33,000 gun deaths, 62% of those were suicides. Many more were justified police shootings, still others were accidental. A far minority were homicides. The tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, especially fentanyl. […]

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“U.S. firearm manufacturer, Remington Outdoor Company, said it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but stay in business throughout the process. “Difficult industry conditions make today’s agreement prudent,” said Jim Geisler, Remington’s executive chairman, in a statement released by the company on Monday. The company has been dogged by falling sales after one of […]

5th Annual Charity Handgun/Rifle Course for Leukemia/Lymphoma We currently have 178 people enrolled! More registrations are coming in every day! We are expecting over 300 participants this year! Every gun owner “thinks” they know how to shoot! But very few actually do. Just because you can take your gun to the range, take it out […]

“A Democrat-backed study meant to expose illicit online gun sales instead seemed to show the opposite — with hardly any sellers taking the bait when undercover investigators tried to set up dozens of illegal firearm transactions. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., as well as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, had commissioned the Government […]

“The world of firearms is filled with misconceptions and myths. I want to zero in on three myths related to women and handguns. Throughout my career, I’ve trained thousands of women to use a firearm, and these three misconceptions (often believed and circulated by men) are among the most common myths I’ve heard. Let’s look […]

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“While I was fact checking today’s Mises Daily article, I checked some correlation coefficients of my own so I didn’t have to rely on Volokh’s numbers as my only source. I approached the data a little differently than Volokh did and instead of using a subjective ranking by an organization like the Brady organization, I […]

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