{"id":54448,"date":"2020-04-30T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54448"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:39:56","slug":"54448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54448","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MygksXrjEB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=54445\">Revisiting RAND\u2019s Gun Law Research Review<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Revisiting RAND\u2019s Gun Law Research Review&#8221; &#8212; \" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?page_id=54445&#038;embed=true#?secret=MygksXrjEB\" data-secret=\"MygksXrjEB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As with the initial report, the key takeaway is that there is no solid body of empirical evidence to support the common gun control wish list items such as bans on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nssf.org\/share\/factsheets\/PDF\/AssaultWeapons.pdf\"><strong>modern sporting rifles<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nssf.org\/share\/factsheets\/PDF\/HighCapMag.pdf\"><strong>magazine size limits<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nssf.org\/share\/factsheets\/PDF\/AgeBasedGunBans.pdf\"><strong>minimum age requirements for purchasing<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>a firearm<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nssf.org\/share\/factsheets\/PDF\/UBC_Concerns.pdf\"><strong>universal background checks<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0licensing and permitting requirements or mandatory sales reporting and registration.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the methodological quality of the existing body of research is low at best. As the report concludes, \u201cthe scientific literature we reviewed shows that many of the best recent studies suffer from important methodological limitations that should be addressed in future research,\u201d and, \u201cwith a few exceptions, there is a surprisingly limited base of rigorous scientific evidence concerning the effects of many commonly discussed gun policies.\u201d\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/researchers-unhappy-with-good-research-publish-junk-instead\/\">We know this already, of course<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revisiting RAND\u2019s Gun Law Research Review As with the initial report, the key takeaway is that there is no solid body of empirical evidence to support the common gun control wish list items such as bans on\u00a0modern sporting rifles,\u00a0magazine size limits,\u00a0minimum age requirements for purchasing\u00a0a firearm,\u00a0universal background checks,\u00a0licensing and permitting requirements or mandatory sales reporting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54449,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448\/revisions\/54449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}