A mass shooting roughly doubles the number of laws enacted in a year that loosen gun restrictions in states with Republican-controlled legislatures.
Weeks after a gunman killed 22 people at a Walmart in Texas, the company announced that it would stop selling handgun ammunition and wind down its sales of handguns.
“We encourage our nation’s leaders to move forward and strengthen background checks and to remove weapons from those who have been determined to pose an imminent danger,” he said. One mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in state-level firearm bills within a year of the event, they said. The study counted a mass shooting as an attack that kills at least four people.
There wasn’t any statistically significant spike in new gun laws in Democrat-controlled statehouses, according to the study, which was distributed this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Given those numbers, mass shootings appear to have “outsized influence,” on when lawmakers have decided when to act during that lengthy span from 1990 to 2014, the researchers wrote.
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