UW News
Caitlin Moe
September 24, 2020
Age restrictions for handguns make little difference in homicides as US deals with ‘de facto availability’ of firearms
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In the United States, individual state laws barring 18- to 20-year-olds from buying or possessing a handgun make little difference in the rate of homicides involving a gun by people in that age group, a new University of Washington study has found. “The central issue is that there’s a very high degree of informal access…