Gun Facts 101

Mayors Against Illegal Guns is launching this new TV ad to highlight bipartisan agreement for common sense measures to fight illegal guns such as closing the gun show loophole. See what all three presidential candidates are saying about closing the gun show loophole.

State Gun Laws
Va Tech Review Panel recommendations on firearms
What are the lax gun laws in your state? How do your state's gun laws
compare to other states?: Brady State Scorecard 2007
The Third Way Culture Project: Missing Records - Holes in Background Check System Allow Illegal Buyers to Get Guns
Gun Violence Statistics and Studies: Firearm Facts:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Mass Gun Violence in the U.S. Since 1997
Debunking a Myth about Guns Purchased from Gun Shows and Crime
Following the Gun: Enforcing Federal Laws Against Firearms Traffickers
In this report: the ATF identified the top two sources of illegally
trafficked guns as: 1) licensed dealers, and 2) gun shows. The ATF analyzed 1,530 firearms trafficking investigations during the period July 1996 -
December 1998 and found that gun shows were the source of approximately 26,000 illegally diverted firearms.
Study of Gun Shows finds California Laws Reduce Illegal Gun Purchases without Limiting Legitimate Gun Sales
Gun shows across a multistate America gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies
List of Shootings with assault weapons since the assault weapons ban expired
America's Gun Shows: Open Markets for Criminals
90 guns for every 100 people
GAO Report on Gun Control and Terrorism
GAO Report on Trauma Care: The increasing costs of gun violence injuries is causing the closing of trauma centers. Note - if this link does not work, plase cut and paste this URL into your browser: http://archive.gao.gov/d20t9/143946.pdf
GAO Reports on Accidental Shootings
Tracing Crime Guns found in Your State
Source of Virginia Crime Guns
Fact Sheet on Virginia's Gun Show Loophole
NPR Radio Interview with Miami Chief of Police, John Timoney: Cop Killings Rise Amid Greater Gun Access
Public Opinion statistics showing overwhelming American support for commen sense gun laws
NORC/University of Chicago - Public Attitudes towards the Regulation of Firearms
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics on Guns
USDOJ Report on Background Checks for Firearms Transfers
Microstamping Technology
"Students with guns were more likely than students without guns to have alcohol-related problems, such as getting into fights attributed to drinking alcohol and being arrested for drinking while intoxicated." (followed by this link:
Harvard School of Public Health researchers, "Guns and Gun Threats at
Colleges,"

"Why do we lie down for 3 minutes?" This was the amount of time it took the Virginia Tech shooter to buy his gun and the mere minutes it takes for dangerous individuals in the U.S. to buy guns.

In the Bureau of Justice Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales ( page 12, third column, upper right) it states that:

"If no record retrieval problems emerge, most State instant approval systems are able to process a check and provide a final response to a dealer in less than 5
minutes. Some systems complete the checking process in less than 1 minute (see Jurisdictional summaries)."

State-by-State Gun Issues

Tennessee Felons Issued Gun Permits

Questions and Answers to Critical Gun Issues in the United States

GUNLAWS101

Why should loaded guns be allowed into our children's schools, when
they are not allowed into gunshows and our U.S. Congress? (Image from the Norfolk Gun Show)