Handgun licensing more effective at reducing gun deaths than background checks alone

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A new white paper from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concludes that of the approaches used by states to screen out prohibited individuals from owning firearms, only purchaser licensing has been shown to reduce gun homicides and suicides.

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