Sentences with phrase «gun research in»

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

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Kinetic Resolve in Stillwater, Minn., received a $ 150,000 Small Business Innovation Research award to develop bullet protection for gun mounts for the Navy.

Although gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in America, it is also one of the most poorly researched, according to a January 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Instead of hired guns, Klein insists, «the right way to do research in a start - up is to have the people who are responsible for making decisions about your product intimately involved in the research itself.»

A recent research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that gun violence is the least - researched leading cause of death in the United States.

«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public Heaguns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public HeaGuns, Public Health.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite what the research says.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

«There is no panic buying of guns because there is clearly no threat of federal government action in response to mass shootings that would restrict or regulate firearms,» Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, wrote in an email.

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you're clearly gunning for an IPO.

That policy not only cut the number of guns in circulation but, based on the research, may have cut the firearm homicide and suicide rates too.

The research supports gun control: A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives.

Bellesiles's painstaking and compendious research exposes the myths that have elevated the gun to its unique place in American life — and death.

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

But, but, but: The Post's in - house pollster, Scott Clement, flags a 2013 Pew Research Study, which found that people who prioritize gun rights over gun control are four or five times more likely to contribute money to advocacy groups, contact public officials, sign petitions and express their views on social media.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

The states at the time announced they would create a research consortium, which Cuomo calls «a major step in our multistate partnership to research responsible gun safety legislation and take new steps to prevent illegal guns from crossing state lines.»

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

The Constitutional Research Council's chairman set up a business in 2013 with the former head of Saudi intelligence and a Danish «private banker» who has previously admitted to openDemocracy that he was involved in the Purulia Arms drop, which was a major Indian gun - running plot in 1995.

Its sponsor, state Sen. Fred Akshar, says research shows between 2015 and 2016, there was a 68 percent spike in gun - related deaths among law enforcement.

The government's claim that gun crime is a localised problem has been contradicted by new research showing one in eight men know someone who has acquired an illegal firearm.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Asked about including new rules for scientific research of guns in the bill, Emanuel suggested that was extraneous, comparing it to the distracting talk of «midnight basketball» programs the last time Congress tried to pass major gun control legislation in the early 1990s.

(WBEN) A new poll from the Siena Research Institute shows extensive support - among both Republicans and Democrats in New York State — for a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases but a split over arming some teachers and possibly banning the sale of assault style weapons in the United States...

House Democrats, who've sought to draw attention to their push for gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun violence.

She also spoke of her other efforts in Congress, such as working to ban assault weapons and forming a bipartisan committee to research the causes and effects of gun violence.

Our experts researched and reviewed the best gun cleaners to bring you a comprehensive list of what's out there to help you keep your arsenal in perfect working order and pristine condition.

AAAS affirms the importance of research to better understand and curb gun violence in a letter to Reps. Maloney and Markey.

While her research did not find a «smoking gun,» definitively proving that the radioactive isotopes were injected by a shock wave, Telus did show that the amount of Fe - 60 present in the early Solar System is consistent with a supernova origin.

Now the largest comprehensive analysis of research on U.S. gun policy in years offers some answers, but also troublingly little guidance.

First he tested Styrofoam, using a high - powered gun at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, to slam tiny aluminum balls into it.

Over the years in Congress I have gotten great satisfaction and encountered real frustrations in dealing with funding for research, trying to make sure science is applied constructively in intelligence, military affairs, transportation, justice, gun safety, environment protection — in all of those things.

«The research literature on gun policies is really very thin,» says Andrew Morral, a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonpartisan institute based in Santa Monica, Calif..

In the same issue of Science, Philip Cook of Duke University and John Donohue of Stanford University published a Policy Forum discussing the challenges of gun research.

The science of gun policy: A critical synthesis of research evidence on the effects of gun policies in the United States.

Building on the team's previous research that shows holding a gun increases a person's inclination to see guns in the hands of others, «Armed and Attentive: Holding a weapon can bias attentional priorities in scene viewing» is forthcoming in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.

That work had ground to a halt in 1996 after Congress banned the agency from any activity that would «advocate or promote gun control» and took away a tiny pot of money devoted to research on firearms.

Maloney's announcement about the bill, co-sponsored by an array of congressional representatives, said it would «release federal agencies from the restrictions placed on them in 1996 that have prohibited these agencies from conducting high - quality, peer - reviewed research into gun violence prevention.»

«I write to applaud you for supporting research as part of your Administration's initiatives on reducing gun violence,» Leshner wrote in his 17 January letter to Obama.

Leshner agreed, as Obama noted in a recent executive action, that «critical public health research» is needed to better understand and potentially help reduce gun violence.

Historically, the CDC had conducted research to try and learn, for example, whether people with guns in their homes were, in fact, safer than those without weapons.

Despite these numbers, the last extensive analysis of research into the origins of gun violence, conducted in 2004, was inconclusive.

«One of our most important findings is the lack of high - quality research on this topic, especially in relation to the major health impact gun violence has had in this country,» says co - author Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, also of Boston Children's Division of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School.

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

Despite advances in statistics that helped researchers tease out findings in the latest gun violence research, Donohue said that statistical research will never yield perfect answers.

«The increasing trend of gun violence in PG - 13 movies that we detected in 2012 continues unabated,» said Dan Romer, research director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and lead author of the article.

Outraged that reality was not falling into line with presuppositions, then representative Jay Dickey of Arkansas added language to federal law in 1996 that barred the CDC from conducting research that might be used «to advocate or promote gun control.»