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Government Measures to Reduce Gun Violence


Office of Gun Violence Prevention | The White House

President Biden established the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to reduce gun violence, which has ravaged communities across the ...

Reducing Gun Violence - Department of Justice

Reducing Gun Violence · Resources · Model Legislation · New Regulation on Stabilizing Braces · New Regulation to Update Firearms Definition · States' Legal Ability ...

How States Can Prevent Gun Violence | Indivisible

What Are Your State's Gun Laws? Our partners at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action/Everytown for Gun Safety have done ...

FACT SHEET: President Biden and Vice President Harris Announce ...

Expanding Collection of Gun Violence Data: There is a lack of reliable and timely data on gun deaths and gunshot injuries that show what is ...

Gun Safety Policies Save Lives - Everytown Research & Policy

Strong Gun Laws, Fewer Deaths · National Leaders. Gun Law Strength: 81.6. Gun Violence Rate: 7.7 · Making Progress. Gun Law Strength: 54.1. Gun Violence Rate: ...

Gun Violence Must Stop. Here's What We Can Do to Prevent More ...

Gun Violence Must Stop. Here's What We Can Do to Prevent More Deaths. Summary. Photo ...

Reducing Gun Violence - United States Conference of Mayors

Our Work. The United States Conference of Mayors supports a comprehensive approach to reducing the scourge of gun violence. It has called for the enactment of ...

6 Ways to Reduce Gun Violence in America

Every day, gun violence takes lives from communities all across the country in the form of suicides, unintentional shootings, and interpersonal conflicts that ...

The Public Health Approach to Prevent Gun Violence

Gun violence is a public health epidemic,. resulting in nearly 45,000 deaths annually in recent years (2019-2021) and an estimated 76,000 nonfatal injuries.1,2 ...

Gun Violence - Amnesty International

The vast majority of gun violence occurs outside of armed conflict settings. A significant proportion – in some states more than half – of firearm deaths are ...

FACT SHEET: Update on Justice Department 's Ongoing Efforts to ...

... reduce violent crime and combat the gun violence that fuels it. These efforts include implementing the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities ...

Gun Policy in America - RAND

Child-access prevention laws may decrease injuries and deaths among youths · Permissive concealed-carry laws may increase homicides and violent crime · Stand-your ...

Gun Violence, Prevention of (Position Paper) - AAFP

Gun violence, which includes homicide, violent crime, attempted suicide, suicide, and unintentional death and injury, exacts a substantial toll on U.S. society.

Call For Action to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States of ...

Universal background checks to screen out violent offenders, persons who have been hospitalized for violence towards self or others, and persons on no-fly, ...

Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy

This report reviews research-based evidence on the causes of gun violence, including homicide, suicide or school shooting. How do mental health and mental ...

How Can We Prevent Gun Violence in American Schools?

This does not have to be. We can foster safe, supportive schools—free from gun violence—by addressing the factors that lead to violent incidents and ...

Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention

Each day more than 100 Americans die by firearms.1 These deaths are preventable. A comprehensive public health approach is needed to address the gun violence ...

Gov. Pritzker Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis, Pledges ...

In areas outside of Chicago, the OFVP will form community advisory groups designed to lower firearm injuries and deaths. Community-Based Violence Prevention and ...

FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and ...

The most important thing we can do to prevent gun violence is to make sure those who would commit violent acts cannot get a firearm in the first ...

Programs and Strategies Addressing Gun Violence

Project Exile was a crime reduction strategy launched in 1997 in Virginia, by the U.S. Attorney's Office, as a result of the spike in violent crime rates in the ...


Gun violence and gun control in Texas

The State of Texas is considered to have some of the most relaxed gun laws in the United States. Public concerns over gun control in Texas have increased in recent years as Mexican drug cartels continue to commit violent crimes closer to Texas' stretch of the Mexico–United States border.