Facts about gun ownership

In order to better serve members and help educate the public, we have provided the following detailed studies on the ownership and use of private firearms in America.

• J. Neil Schulman interview with Dr. Gary Kleck, author of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
  
  

• Statement of David Kopel on the Brady Amendment before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, August 2, 1988
  
  

• Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns - John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard.
  
  

• Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement - John R. Lott, Jr and William M. Landes
  
  

• Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime - John R. Lott, Jr. and John E. Whitley.
  
  

• United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson - U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas Confirms the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
  
  

• Why the New York State System for Obtaining a License to Carry a Concealed Weapon is Unconstitutional - Suzanne Novak, Fordham Law School
  
  

• The Commonplace Second Amendment - Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School
  
  

• Mary Carpenter letter to state legislature on mandatory storage laws.