Gun laws... Are there really TWENTY THOUSAND LAWS???

[WAMO556]

Well,

The Brookings Institutions does not seem to think so. But the ones that are on the books are rather onerous to say the least, those few would seem to make up for the TWENTY THOUSAND that aren't on the books.

Here's the link:

http://www.brookings.edu/es/urban/publications/gunbook4.pdf

[major burnout]

Those laws keep you safe. Geez show some respect.

[AreWeFree]

http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/government-gun-laws-and-social-costs/

Fact: There are more than 22,000 (1) gun laws at the city, county, state, and federal level. If gun control worked, then we should be free of crime. Yet the U.S. government “found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes” (2) and also concluded in one study that none of the attackers interviewed was “hindered by any law – federal, state or local –that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just laughed at gun laws.” (3)

(1) Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms estimate and reported via James Wright, Peter H. Rossi, Kathleen Daly, 1983 ↩
(2) First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws, CDC, Task Force on Community Preventive Services, Oct 3, 2003 – a systematic review of 51 studies that evaluated the effects of selected firearms laws on violence ↩
(3)Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation’s Law Enforcement Officers, U.S. Department of Justice, August 2006 ↩

[hermosabeach]

Some law clerk can search
City by city in the U.S.
County by county
State by state
Federal laws- domestic
Federal laws import
Federal laws - export
Executive orders.

Etc

[SonofWWIIDI]

Wow, that's surprising...







There's only 20,000.

[anothergunnut]

From the article:

By itself, the exact number of gun laws in
the United States should be of almost no
interest. After all, laws are not homogeneous
commodities, like bricks or cups of flour, and
the total number of regulations tell us nothing
about the overall stringency of gun
control. However, since the 20,000 figure has
become such an important feature of the
rhetoric against passage of further gun-control
laws, we believe it worthwhile to take a
look at the facts.

They admit that the factoid has no value to the debate except as rhetoric but they still insist on analyzing it so they can dispute it. Maybe they could have used their time showing how gun control has been effective in reducing crime