Guns up crime down anti-gun MUM

American Handgunner, May-June, 2005

So says the headline in Handgunner's sister pub Shooting Industry magazine (Feb. 2005). My friend, Editor Russ Thurman, used his Industry News column to tell it like it is. "The anti-gun" movement continues to be staggered by highly regarded studies that show the movement's foundational theme-'guns equals crime'--is wrong," says Russ.

He fires another broadside too: "During the past six months studies have shown that while gun ownership is at an all-time high, violent crime is at a 30-year low, and that the significant number of laws regulating guns has no affect on crime reduction." According to the National Academy of Sciences, they examined 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, 80 gun-control laws plus their own studies. Its findings are published in a 328-page report.

"It could find no evidence to support the conclusion that government restrictions on firearms reduces gun crime, gun violence and gun accidents," reported the Investor's Business Daily. "The most pre-eminent scientific group in America has produced a definitive analysis of our decade-long experience with gun control and shattered what has become an article of faith among proponents," they continued.

And, according to Russ: "Not surprisingly, the anti-gun movement has not responded to the report." And he's right, I'm not surprised. Go get 'em Russ!

For more info: www.shootingindustry.com