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The relationship between gun laws and mass shootings in the United States, including the impact of permissive and restrictive laws on firearm deaths.
is not uniformly unlawful across the ; there is no single federal ban and the legal picture is a patchwork of state and local rules, court decisions, and generally applicable criminal laws that can pr...
A clear national rule does not exist: there is no federal ban on and states approach the issue through a patchwork of laws that sometimes ban guns from capitol grounds, specified “sensitive places,” o...
A single, definitive list of states that bar firearms at political demonstrations or across entire capitol grounds does not exist in the provided reporting; instead, advocacy groups, think‑tanks and n...
A patchwork of state laws — not a single federal ban — governs : a small number of states have statutes that explicitly forbid carrying firearms at parades, demonstrations, or marching with arms, whil...
The United States combines relatively permissive federal and state gun rules with extraordinarily high civilian gun prevalence and firearm death rates compared with other high-income democracies . Oth...
Blue and red states now diverge sharply in the content and direction of firearms laws: Democratic-led states have been tightening regulations on sales, storage and certain weapons while Republican-led...
States with more permissive, “lax” gun laws consistently show higher rates of mass shootings and other firearm deaths than states with stricter laws, according to multiple time‑series and cross‑state ...