Gun Violence Archive Logs ‘Non-Violent’ Incidents as ‘Gun Violence’

The Gun Violence Archive stands as the favorite go-to resource for anti-gun reporters and politicians to draw on statistics about violence committed with firearms.  However, the truth must not be sensational enough for them. So what does the GVA do to whip up emotions?  By their own reporting, they’re including very “non-violent” incidents as “Gun … Read more

Junk Science: RAND Finds only 123 of 27,900 Gun Control Studies Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards

We’ve all heard stories — on a monthly basis, if not more often — about alleged “studies” that allegedly show that if we just pass a few more gun control measures, we can finally turn the tide on the criminal misuse of firearms. Various big gun control groups love to tout these studies to support … Read more

About That Less Than Illuminating RAND Corporation’s Gun Law Research Report . . .

By Elizabeth McGuigan In 2018, the RAND Corporation released a review of available research on various gun-related laws and their impacts on a range of eight outcomes. RAND has recently released an update of the report, adding five new categories of gun policies, and examining an expanded research period of 1995-2018. Weighing in at over 400 pages … Read more