The Rand Corporation has put a death toll on last year’s gun-rights Supreme Court ruling, calculating that more permissive concealed-carry permit laws would lead to at least 150 additional firearms deaths each year.
In new research released Thursday, Rand modeled combinations of state gun laws to calculate their relative lethality, and came up with estimates for how many lives would be saved — or lost — if they were to change their policies.
Making all states adopt restrictive policies would result in a significant, though not massive, change in firearms death rates. It found that states in the Northeast and along the West Coast had lower rates of firearms deaths, while the South and Mountain West had rates that were “especially high.”The justices, in a 6-3 decision, ruled in June that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of a right to bear arms means that states cannot impose unwarranted restrictions on who can obtain a concealed-carry permit.
Mark Oliva, managing director of public affairs at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said Rand didn’t study other options for reducing gun deaths, such as stricter enforcement of laws on the books. “These are not issues that the industry is blind to. We take a very proactive approach to ensuring those that shouldn’t have their hands on firearms don’t get them,” he said.
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