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Is Maine Spying on Gun Owners?: This Week in Gun Rights

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 by Matthew Larosiere

This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Why are the Moms wearing orange next week? No doubt inspired by the color scheme of a home improvement superpower, … Read more

No, More Gun Control Laws Will NOT Result in Fewer Suicides

February 13, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

By Jim Barrett [ED: We published this post back in 2013. The more things change, the more they stay the same. There’s been much written lately about the suicide rates in various states, depending on their relative firearms friendliness. The obvious implication is that, if only we had tougher gun laws, we’d have fewer suicides. … Read more

Do Guns Cause Adolescents to Commit Suicide?

February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

By Robert B. Young, MD Short answer: No. But you wouldn’t know that from the breathless media coverage of a recent study from the Boston University and Harvard’s T.C. Chan’s Schools of Public Health. “Household Gun Ownership and Youth Suicide Rates at the State Level, 2005–2015” was published online by the American Journal of Preventive MedicineJanuary 17. Suicide is a complex … Read more

Disparate Results, An Assisted First Shot and Making Records Searchable – TTAG Daily Digest

July 5, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

Women Marines Less Accurate Shooting Rifles

Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently, shoot less accurately than men This will never do. Time to give men less accurate optics . . . Women in a new Marine Corps unit created to assess how female service members perform in combat were injured twice as often as men, less accurate with infantry … Read more