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Delaware's New Handgun Purchaser Licensing Law: Advocacy Makes a Difference 
Johns Hopkins ^ | May 16, 2024 | Center for Gun Violence Solutions Staff

Posted on 06/25/2024 10:48:52 PM PDT by imardmd1

Delaware Governor John Carney has signed the state’s Handgun Purchaser Licensing bill into law.

Following years of consistent engagement by dedicated advocates and legislators, a purchaser licensing bill, sometimes referred to as permit-to-purchase, passed the final hurdle in Delaware and has been signed into law by Governor John Carney. When enacted, the law will require all who seek to purchase a handgun, unless they have a valid Delaware concealed carry permit, to submit fingerprints, undergo a more thorough criminal background check, and complete live firearm safety training.

Research shows that if Delaware had adopted a Handgun Purchaser Licensing law when Connecticut did in 1995, we would expect there to have been 47 fewer firearm homicides and 103 fewer firearm suicides over the first 10 years of implementation1. This legislation is an important piece of Delaware’s multi-pronged approach to gun violence prevention. 

“Delaware’s new law stands as a model for states around the country to pass policies that will save lives,” says Jen Pauliukonis, MPH ‘22, Director of Policy and Programming of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Firearm Purchaser Licensing is backed by research and takes a public health approach to combatting the epidemic of gun violence.” 

Eleven states and Washington, D.C. now have a Firearm Purchaser Licensing law in effect.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; delaware; gunrights; infringement; obsessivecontrol; privilege; progressivism
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A major change in Delaware's historic approach to gun purchases. Restrictions have been slowly increasing over the past ten years.
1 posted on 06/25/2024 10:48:52 PM PDT by imardmd1
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Rules are for other people.....I do not ask permission for a God given RIGHT.


2 posted on 06/25/2024 11:01:12 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: imardmd1

Well the first thing if I were a Citizen of Delaware go after Biden and the Governor...just saying..


3 posted on 06/25/2024 11:36:43 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: imardmd1

I noticed that the Illinois firearms owners permit has really slowed down murders in Chicago, East St. Louis, Peoria, etc.


4 posted on 06/25/2024 11:46:25 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: imardmd1

Missouri had this exact law post 1968, except there was a very restrictive permit to carry. It was done away with because the bad guys knew their victims were most likely unarmed but they could still get guns.


5 posted on 06/26/2024 12:23:05 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: imardmd1

“47 fewer firearm homicides and 103 fewer firearm suicides over the first 10 years of implementation”

Junk science.


6 posted on 06/26/2024 1:01:42 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: imardmd1

INFRINGE
“intransitive verb To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate.
intransitive verb Obsolete To defeat; invalidate.
intransitive verb To encroach on someone or something; engage in trespassing.
from The Century Dictionary.
To commit a breach or infraction of; act contrary to, as a law, right, or obligation; transgress, either by action or by negligence; violate; break.
To annul or hinder.
To encroach; trespass; intrude: followed by on or upon: as, to infringe upon one’s rights.”


7 posted on 06/26/2024 1:12:40 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: imardmd1

FRINGE

“something that is marginal, additional,
or secondary to some activity, process, or subject”


8 posted on 06/26/2024 1:20:01 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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There is absolutely NO WAY that they can prove those statistics! It’s all a lie!


9 posted on 06/26/2024 1:25:54 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: imardmd1

In prefix

“Meaning “Not”
The prefix “in-” can also mean “not”
or “opposite of.” For example:

Insane: not sane or rational
Invalid: not valid or effective
Indifferent: not caring or concerned.

I split these up on purpose.


10 posted on 06/26/2024 1:26:18 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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“Research”. 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂


11 posted on 06/26/2024 2:44:58 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: DeplorablePaul

The figures may well be analytically correct as far as they go, but the key point in the real world is that rates of robbery, burglary, home invasion, and personal violence go down when firearms are readily available to the general public. Adding in cost, complexity, and delay for firearm purchases helps criminals by burdening the ability of the public to protect themselves.


12 posted on 06/26/2024 3:10:46 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: DeplorablePaul

This prove your can manufacture “research” to show anything you want.


13 posted on 06/26/2024 3:52:22 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: imardmd1

Would never have wanted to live there anyway.


14 posted on 06/26/2024 4:01:02 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Your insults are my rocket fuel. Thank you!)
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the research of today is not based on the true numbers of incidents in any particular field of study but on what numbers sound best to the general public in order to elicit a forgone and planned conclusion in the minds of the people. “If it SOUNDS good, it must be true” applies.


15 posted on 06/26/2024 4:06:47 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: DeplorablePaul

“firearms” versus “handguns”...
Conflation is the left’s stock in trade...


16 posted on 06/26/2024 4:35:13 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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How the hell does one get live firearms training if you can’t buy the gun first? Do you go rent a pistol at the training center (probably a cheap .22) get the training and fire the gun? Then you go to the gun store and can now buy say an AR-15? Just wondering...


17 posted on 06/26/2024 5:59:36 AM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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Every gun law is touted as the ultimate response to firearm violence for 5 minutes, then it’s not. Gun laws are about two things: punishing people who believe in the 2A, and the goal of taking everyone’s firearms away from them. The second objective is absolutely impossible.


18 posted on 06/26/2024 6:16:38 AM PDT by Spok
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To: DeplorablePaul

“47 fewer firearm homicides and 103 fewer firearm suicides over the first 10 years of implementation”

Junk science.

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Now, how many more murders, burglaries, rapes nd robberies would have occurred because of the law?


19 posted on 06/26/2024 6:29:48 AM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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I unfortunately live in Connecticut. We have every gun law they can think of and it doesn’t do a damn bit of good. Every night on the local news it’s a shooting in Hartford or New Haven or Bridgeport etc. And yes Boo boo, it is them.


20 posted on 06/26/2024 7:39:44 AM PDT by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suits. )
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