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The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by ...
Joseph V. Sakran is an American trauma surgeon, public health researcher, gun control advocate and activist. Sakran was shot in the throat at the age of 17. [1] He is currently an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University, director of Emergency General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and vice chair of Clinical Operations.
Legislative Information System. Virginia General Assembly. "Virginia Gun Laws Summary". National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action. March 2, 2016. Jouvenal, Justin; Lamothe, Dan. "Senior Navy official charged with pointing gun at men during argument". The Washington Post. July 19, 2016.
Vivek Murthy's advisory is a departure from years of denial by the U.S. government. It can only help us treat firearms as the public health crisis they are.
Project Exile is a federal program started in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997.Project Exile shifted the prosecution of illegal technical gun possession offenses to federal court, where they carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, rather than in state court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence in the country a public health crisis on Tuesday, calling on Americans to act to prevent rising firearm-related deaths and ...
The Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 was passed by the District of Columbia city council on June 29, 1976, [1] [2] and went into effect September 24, 1976. [3] The law banned residents from owning handguns , automatic firearms , or high-capacity semi-automatic firearms , as well as prohibited possession of unregistered firearms .
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