Broadening Denial Criteria for the Purchase and Possession of Firearms Need, Feasibility, and Effectiveness
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among legal purchasers of firearms— those who have passed their background checks— and the evidence that extending the denial criteria to additional high risk populations is feasible and effective. Its primary subject is persons convicted of violent misdemeanor crimes, a group sometimes referred to as notsolawabiding gun own ers. It will briefly consider persons who abuse alcohol, which is discussed more fully in the essay by Katherine A. Vittes (in this volume).
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