Bloomberg Funded Gun Control Study: CT’s Handgun Law Reduces Firearms Deaths. Or Not.
By Nick Leghorn
There’s a study getting some traction out of the Bloomberg funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research that claims Connecticut’s handgun law is saving lives. In fact, it’s the same ones Congressional Democrats are using as justification for their proposal to license all handgun buyers. The problem with making claims about the efficacy of different laws is that there really isn’t a good way to massage the data to make that determination. There are a ton of factors that all go into the crime rate, and usually the applicable laws don’t have an appreciable impact. However, as an article in Newsweek proclaims, this time they have proof! . . .
Here’s the claim:
A decades-old gun law in Connecticut requiring residents to have a permit before purchasing a handgun is credited with helping to reduce the state’s firearms-related homicide rate by 40 percent, according to a new study.
The “decades old gun law” in question is the firearms owner licensing requirement in Connecticut. Anyone who wants to buy a handgun must have a permit prior to purchase, and the sales are tracked. This of course only applies to law abiding gun owners, as criminals …read more
Source:: Truth About Guns
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