When Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the bill in March, her office hailed the measure as a way to improve public safety.
"Background checks reduce the rate of women killed by an intimate partner; background checks reduce suicide rates; background checks reduce the rate of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty; background checks, very simply, keep firearms and individuals with demonstrated dangerous histories separate," Grisham said in a press release at the time."The work we do to make our communities safer is never complete, but this legislation represents a tremendous step forward.
While universal background checks increase the regulatory burden for those who are prohibited from owning firearms, the effectiveness of expanding checks alone has been called into question.which found that, by themselves, universal background check requirements did"not decrease lethal gun violence.
According to the study, after Connecticut required gun owners to first obtain a license from the state in 1995, a 40-percent drop in gun homicides and a 15-percent drop in gun suicides were attributed to the new rules.
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