Ruth Zakarin, the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Coalition To Prevent Gun Violence, appears on the FCTV programs, “Think About It,” to discuss gun violence in Massachusetts and what her organization is doing to help reduce the staggering toll of the easy accessibility to firearms.

BOSTON — Governor Maura T. Healey today signed into law An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws (H.4885), the state’s most significant gun safety legislation in a decade. The bill was passed by the Legislature as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which sought to weaken states’ ability to protect their…

This infographic explores the rapidly increasing health and economic costs of gun violence across the United States.It explains not only the emotional toll but also the economic cost of gun violence. For more information click HERE.

In the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas mass shooting, 12 of the rifles the gunman had in his 32nd-floor hotel room were each modified with a “bump stock,” an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster. Within a week after the massacre, the National Rifle Association announced that it would support tighter restrictions on such devices.…

On Oct. 18th, the Mass. House passed a sweeping gun safety “Omnibus” bill and then on Feb. 1st the Mass. Senate passed its own version of a gun safety bill. The next step is to reconcile the differences between the two bills in a Conference Committee, with three members from each of the two chambers.…

With less than a week left as chief of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre got to look back at his 33-year tenure in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday, when he began testifying in a civil corruption case that the New York attorney general brought against him. Mr. LaPierre has been accused of…

Oronde McClain was struck by a stray bullet on a Philadelphia street corner when he was 10. The bullet shattered the back of his skull, splintering it into 36 pieces. McClain’s heart stopped, and he was technically dead for two minutes and 17 seconds. Although a hospital team shocked him back to life, McClain never fully recovered.…

Across America, hundreds of towns and cities are trying to get guns off the streets by turning them over to businesses that offer to destroy them. But a “New York Times” investigation found that something very different is happening. Yeah, we’ve been looking a lot at the issues of gun violence, gun culture, gun commerce…

Massachusetts’ law prohibiting the possession and sale of some semiautomatic weapons commonly used in mass shootings is acceptable under a recent change to Second Amendment precedent from the US Supreme Court, a federal judge said Thursday. The National Association for Gun Rights asked the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts to prevent the…

This is a portion of an article running in the New York Times 122/10/23: When Flint, Mich., announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms. “Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” said Mayor Sheldon Neeley. “I…

The AR-15 fires bullets at such a high velocity — often in a barrage of 30 or even 100 in rapid succession — that it can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a skull and demolish vital organs. The impact is even more…

Nationwide, the death toll is mounting, especially for young people. Firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death in those younger than 25 years of age in the United States in 2017, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with a sharp increase noted in 2020. More than 120 people are killed…

Often thought of as one of the states with the strictest firearms laws. the Sig Sauer MCX, the gun in the video below, is legal, along with dozens of similar models, for sale in the state of Massachusetts. Some require modification such as welding folding stock hinges, but the modifications are simple and do nothing…

  New Hapshire firearms manufacturer has begun marketing their trigger module, the only part of a gun that is required to be registered in Massachusetts, as the plaform for buyers to use to construct a customized firearm. No other parts or components require a firearms license to purchase.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkirI0MugxE

It’s become a somber American tradition. A mass shooting ends lives and devastates communities. New laws are proposed, with well-worn debates over guns and mental illness. Sometimes they pass; most times they do not. This year, following the Lewiston shooting, which killed 18 and injured more than a dozen, it’s Maine’s turn to participate in…

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced the launch of the office’s gun violence prevention unit Thursday, which she said will aggressively enforce the state’s gun laws and consumer protection statute, as well as defend those laws from ongoing and potential legal challenges. “As senseless acts of gun violence continue to terrorize and harm children, families, and communities…

Millions of Americans may have asked themselves these questions, or versions of them—especially in the wake of horrific mass shootings like those in Buffalo and Uvalde. Record-breaking spikes in gun sales over the last two years, alongside surveys indicating that self-protection continues to be the dominant reason for buying guns, underscore a widely-held belief that a gun in…