The spring 2023 issue of The Legal Eagle–Special Gun Safety Edition is now available. The Legal Eagle’s spring issue is a super-sized 12-page edition and contains articles on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on gun control, red flag laws, suing gun manufacturers and holding parents accountable in school shootings. In addition, sidebars on ghost guns and gun safety around the world are also included. A PDF of the Special Gun Safety Edition can be downloaded or individual articles can be read and/or printed from The Legal Eagle’s blog, The Lowdown.
Any questions, contact the editor of The Legal Eagle, Jodi L. Miller. She can be reached via email at jmiller@njsbf.org.
Here are the headlines from The Legal Eagle’s Special Gun Safety Edition:
U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Gun Safety
When an active shooter entered the Michigan State University campus on February 13, 2023, killing three students and wounding five others, for some it would be the second mass shooting they survived. Several MSU students had also survived a shooting at a Michigan high school in November 2021, and one student had been a sixth grader at a nearby school when the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School occurred in 2012. READ MORE
Throwing a Red Flag on Gun Safety
Federal gun safety legislation signed into law by President Joseph Biden in June 2022 includes $250 million for the establishment of state crisis intervention court proceedings, including extreme risk protection orders (ERPO). READ MORE
The Challenges of Holding Gun Manufacturers Accountable
In almost every other industry, if you’ve sustained an injury, you have some course of redress through the courts. Not so with the gun industry, which includes gun makers, sellers and distributors. They are shielded by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which was signed into law in 2005 by President George W. Bush. READ MORE
Is Charging Parents for School Shootings a Solution?
A project undertaken by The Washington Post that analyzed school shootings from 1999, the year of the Columbine High School shooting, revealed that the average age for school shooters is 16. According to a 2019 assessment published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in 76% of school shootings the weapon used in the crime came from the home of a parent or close family relative. READ MORE
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