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Just like your other assets and possessions, gun owners need to have a plan in place for the management of guns and firearms upon incapacitation or death. A gun trust is the safest way to ensure your firearm(s) are distributed legally and to your wishes. It’s also a strategic way to keep them out of probate. Learn more about the benefits of gun trusts and how they can safeguard your loved ones on the Hackstaff, Snow, Atkinson & Griess blog: https://lnkd.in/gRy7jpPH #hsaglaw #guntrusts #estateplanning #estateplanningattorney

SCotUS overturned the Trump-era #bumpstock ban that was implemented after the Las Vegas #massshooting event. Naturally, those who disagree with the ruling believe this reversal will result in catastrophic numbers of mass casualty events and victims. I again reiterate that the weapon (or accessory) used by the perpetrator of a mass shooting is the least of our concerns. Yes, the #shooter in the Las Vegas event used bump stocks to facilitate a rapid rate of fire as he randomly fired into a densely packed concert venue. The worst two MCEs in US history after Las Vegas occurred in Orlando, FL (Pulse Club, June 2016) and Blacksburg, VA (Virginia Tech, 2007). Massive numbers of casualties, no bump stocks. What all of these three perpetrators had that they used to their advantage was time. Again, the problem boils down to people. The perpetrators must be stopped, before their rampage if possible. The would-be victims need to know how to spot and report a developing threat (recognize leakage) and escape an active shooter if a shooting starts. People with the responsibility of leadership and intervention (principals and #LEO partners across the spectrum of #lawenforcement) need to take action on credible reports of concerning behavior. On-site LEO needs to take swift and decisive action to intervene to stop the killing when the shooting starts. We need to train people. Often. And well.

Feel good programs vs actually effective programs.

In GNET's latest Insight, Rajan Basra and Nathan Mayer explore the lawsuits, rivalries, and trolls within the 3D-printed gun movement. They examine aspects of GunCAD’s adversarial behaviour and the fallout from the Everytown lawsuit. You can read more about this in the New York Times' latest feature by Lizzie Dearden and Thomas Gibbons-Neff: https://lnkd.in/e8kHyF_v.

Alienation flows through the barrel of a gun: Despair, mass shootings, and suicide in an American settler colony - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gyGjwDd9 In what is now referred to by many as the United States, gun violence rages on. When one considers the country’s sheer number of annual gun deaths, the data is as overwhelming as it is distressing. Indeed, perhaps the only thing outpacing the trauma and loss of life wrought by gun violence is the anguish and grief of those who are impacted by it. Despite the shocking statistics and fervent calls for change, few efforts have been effective at curbing the harm. Such a reality raises pressing questions about why gun violence in the U.S. is so prevalent, and what can be done to prevent it. In this Contention, I maintain that the only way out of the U.S.’s centuries-long doom spiral of gun violence will be reckoning with the nation’s historical-ongoing trajectories of settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and imperialism. I further contend that any effort to eliminate gun violence in the U.S. mandates ending mass alienation and taking masculinity to task. Accordingly, I illustrate how guns are not actually the root of the problem, even though their ease of access and the culture(s) surrounding them are corollary symptoms that necessitate urgent intervention. In short, I argue that resolving gun violence in the U.S. demands a historical-structural-intersectional focus and that the source of the country’s firearm-involved deaths are alienation, despair, and oppression owed to capitalism, entrenched patriarchal social relations, and the settler colonial state––all of which must be abolished if we are seriously concerned with livable futures. To end and in short, efforts to address gun violence must extend beyond legislative action and encompass social, cultural, and economic transformation. Liberal ideals and playing by the rules of the bourgeois settler state have not and will never lay the groundwork for a more just, harmonious, and safer society. Rather, correcting ongoing historical wrongs, abolishing exploitative institutions, and promoting redistributive and revolutionary processes on the terms and preferences of targeted, abandoned, and poor constituencies are vital first steps. My contention thus remains that healing the wounds inflicted by settler colonialism and reckoning with the enduring legacies of white supremacy will never come to fruition so long as the capitalist economy, modern nation-state, and our prevailing notions of masculinity continue to operate, exist, and rule the day. Whether these realizations and emancipatory remedies are ever collectively recognized and meaningfully pursued within what is currently called the United States by some remains to be seen. #democracy #liberalism #government #polticaltheory #DemocraticErosion #backsliding #repubicanism #socialhierarchy #SupremeCourt #neoliberalism #postliberalism #religion #illiberalism

Want to see a unicorn? ... or at least evidence than an academic article actually captured the attention of politicians? Here's the story in three quick parts: 1. With grad student Marc Huffer, I published a quantitative study showing that Philadelphia's gun buyback programs had no effect on gun crime and calls for service around the buyback sites. https://lnkd.in/eQKSD6pu 2. Knowing that nobody reads academic research, we followed up with an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, explaining the study, and suggesting the city examine other options, such as the 1990s consent-to-search program in St. Louis, studied by Scott Decker and colleagues. https://bit.ly/3AYvpyB 3. A month later, Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution requiring the administration to "further examine the "consent-to-search" program in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, as an alternative to gun buy backs" https://bit.ly/4idb8G7 This was about a year ago, but was reminded of it when asked about policy influence by a grad student. This was a rare 😊 moment.

Sensible gun reform NOW! Such reasonable reforms that 65% to 90% of ALL Americans support must be enacted. It will make us safer, better reflect our humanitarian values, and will not harm the gun industry or the rights of people to own guns and hunting rifles. WIN/WIN/WIN. Who in Congress or the statehouses are backing this reform, WHO? What political party is getting behind this reform? WHO? Find out and support that party and its leaders.

“Freedom is not something to be secured at any one moment of time. We must struggle to preserve it every day. And freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” — Ronald Reagan The assaults come daily: threats of gun bans, stricter gun control bills, microstamping proposals, licensing legislation, registration regulations, hunting limitations and so on. You name it and you can bet anti-gun politicians and bureaucrats are hard at work devising new ways to constrict or restrict your gun rights altogether. So it is that America’s law-abiding gun owners must be vigilant and diligent in responding to each new fight that arises. If you’d like to take a more active role in defending your Right to Keep and Bear Arms, you can choose to join the NRA, contribute to our efforts or exercise your right to vote. Each of these important actions will have an impact in helping safeguard America’s treasured Second Amendment freedoms.

Benefits of an NFA Gun Trust Over a Revocable (Traditional) Trust There are more than 50 differences between an NFA Gun Trust and a traditional trust. Most trusts don’t instruct trustees on how to purchase. Trustees also don’t have enough information to transfer assets properly. With an NFA Gun Trust, you will be coached from start to finish. The NFA Gun Trust will determine if: The items are transferable The items are legal in their transfer state The beneficiary is legally able to possess the firearm The successor trustee can determine when and if the beneficiary can receive the firearm https://lnkd.in/d8Tu-dg

“… from an economic perspective gun buybacks that occur regularly can reduce the cost of gun ownership by raising the liquidation value of a firearm and thus reduce the cost of ownership. Reduced ownership costs could stimulate increased gun purchases.” Whoa. You mean these events do not decrease gun violence? You don’t say…. It’s almost like emphasizing the fact that the only members of society who abide by norms and standards are ….. LAW ABIDING INDIVIDUALS, NOT CRIMINALS. You cannot legislate morality.