How You Can Help Prevent Gun Violence

Americans pay, directly and indirectly, an exorbitant cost for gun violence while the gun lobby, including the National Rifle Association, acquit themselves of any responsibility. The American tax payer foots the bill for medical care, extra police, long-term care of the seriously injured and care for those who are shot but not insured.

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When law enforcement recovers a gun used in a crime the federally licensed firearms (FFL) dealer’s gun sale transaction is used to track the gun. If the owner of record sold the gun without a background check to a person who is prohibited from buying a gun, the gun seller could face criminal charges.

When law enforcement recovers a gun used in a crime the federally licensed firearms (FFL) dealer’s gun sale transaction is used to track the gun. If the owner of record sold the gun without a background check to a person who is prohibited from buying a gun, the gun seller could face criminal charges.

Require higher standards for gun ownership

When law enforcement recovers a gun used in a crime the federally licensed firearms (FFL) dealer’s gun sale transaction is used to track the gun. If the owner of record sold the gun without a background check to a person who is prohibited from buying a gun, the gun seller could face criminal charges.

OFSA also requires the Oregon State Police to notify local law enforcement when a person prohibited from buying a gun tries to do so and fails the background check.

Enhance accountability of federally licensed firearm dealers

  • Limiting gun purchases to one gun per month to reduce trafficking and straw purchases
  • Imposing a waiting period of two weeks between time of sale and possession to deter suicide and impulse shootings
  • Requiring security cameras, computerized sales inventory, and other anti-theft measures as are required by other purveyors of dangerous substances such as pharmacies
  • A microstamped code on each bullet that links it to a specific gun
  • National universal background checks for all firearm sales
  1. Enough is Enough: A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Gun Safety. 2015. Retrieved from http://blumenauer.house.gov/images/pdf/enough_is_enough.pdf ↩
  2. Webster DW. “America’s Path to Fewer Gun Deaths.” Retrieved from http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=309062 ↩
  3. Quinnpac University Poll, Sept. 17-21, 2015 http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm↩
  4. State Background Check Requirements and Rates of Domestic Violence Homicide. http://everytownresearch.org/state-background-check-requirements-and-rat....↩
  5. Sorenson SB and Webster DW. “What Works, Policies to Reduce Gun Violence. Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention and Policy," APA Panel Of Experts Report. American Psychological Association, 2013, pg. 30. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pubs/info/ reports/gun-violence-prevention.aspx.↩
  6. Wintemute G. “Broadening Denial Criteria. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America." Editors Webster DW, Vernick JS. Baltimore, 2014. pp. 13-17. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-cente....↩
  7. Seventy percent of gun owners and 76.1% of non-gun owners support a gun policy prohibiting a person convicted of two or more crimes involving alcohol or drugs within a three-year period from having a gun for 10 years. Barry CL, McGinty EE, Vernick JS, Webster DW. “After Newtown — Public Opinion on Gun Policy and Mental Illness." N Engl J Med. 2013;368:1077-1081. March 21, 2013. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1300512. Retrieved from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1300512#t=article↩
  8. Safe Storage & Gun Locks Policy Summary. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Retrieved from http://smartgunlaws.org/safe-storage-gun-locks-policy-summary/↩

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