Pew Trusts - . In the years since Sandy Hook, when 26 were slain in 2012, states
have enacted nearly 600 new gun laws, according to data compiled
separately by the National Rifle Association and the Giffords Law Center
to Reduce Gun Violence.Nearly two-thirds of those were backed by the NRA.
It is “indisputably true” that there have been far more new laws that
loosen gun restrictions than tighten them, said Michael Hammond, the
legislative counsel at Gun Owners of America, a Virginia-based “no
compromise” gun lobbying organization. The way a state reacts to mass
shootings depends on who controls its legislature, he said. And in the
case of the states that expanded access to firearms, most were
controlled by Republicans.
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