Sentences with phrase «around gun ownership»

Why we are defaulting to a state of no transparency around gun ownership is baffling to me.

That result is surprising, given the increasingly divisive nature of the debate around gun ownership.

Not exact matches

Around when Australia adopted its gun regulations, Parliament passed legislation banning private ownership of handguns in Britain and banned semiautomatic and pump - action firearms throughout the UK.

Read more about the debate around mental illness and gun ownership.

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

To put it more empirically, much of the debate surrounding gun violence in the U.S. — and elsewhere — revolves around rates of civil small arms ownership.