Gun Show Confirmation
February 1, 2009
We knew it all along that gun shows do not increase crime. The law doesn’t stop at the door of a gun show, all sales must go through a background check, just like outside the show.
Well, the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan just completed an 11 year study of gun shows that concludes that they do not increase crime and might even reduce crime! Here is the link to the NRA article: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4200 and if you don’t trust the NRA as a source, here is the link to the actual study: http://www.closup.umich.edu/research/workingpapers/papers/gunshows-sept08-final.pdf
The study included both extremes in America. They looked at gun shows in Texas and California. Texas of course being less restrictive and California being much more restrictive. The study found no increase in violent crime in California following gun shows. The study found that in Texas “there are approximately 16 fewer gun homicides resulting from the 200 gun shows in the average year.”
Will this study sway the opinion of the anti-gun crowd? I doubt it, but here are the FACTS anyway.
