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A handgun may be carried virtually anywhere in Indiana except for the following exceptions: In or on school property (locked in a vehicle is OK), on a school bus, in or on property that is being used by a school for a school function, private school, head start, preschool programs, on commercial or charter aircraft, controlled access areas of an airport, on the premises of the annual Indiana ...
Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey require any firearm purchaser to obtain a permit. Illinois began requiring background checks for sales at gun shows in 2005 [25] and began requiring checks for all private sales in 2014; [26] in 2023 the state changed its law to require private sales to go through background checks processed by FFL ...
Gary was part of a national movement by mayors to take on industry practices and combat illegal firearms sales. Straw sales in Indiana have continued amid the court and legislative battles.
In the August 5, 2010, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers Garen J. Wintemute, Anthony A. Braga, and David M. Kennedy, wrote that gun shows account for only a fraction of all U.S. gun sales and that a more effective strategy of preventing gun violence would be to make all private-party gun sales go through the screening ...
Rank: 1 Percent Change in Gun Sales: 26.8% Kentucky has had by far the biggest increase in gun sales this year, with 443,345 more background checks in the first half of 2022 than in the first half ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
More than two dozen Indiana kids were hurt or killed from unsecured, loaded guns in 2023. What's being done to stop the deadly trend? '100% preventable': Indiana kids killed by unsecured guns hits ...
Private property where the lawful owner or lessee has posted a sign or verbally stated that firearms are not permitted. Some states have enacted laws prohibiting the carrying of firearms on private property, unless the property owner or lawful occupant has explicitly granted permission for the carrying of weapons on the premises.