Essential Questions in Firearms Law: Why the Laws Are What They

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS IN FIREARMS LAW: Why the Firearms Laws Are What They AreThe standard story is simple: America has a gun violence crisis driven by too many guns. So we need stricter laws. But the data tells a different story-one most gun policy advocates won't acknowledge.The United States has more civilian firearms than any nation on Earth, yet accidental firearm death is at the lowest rate ever recorded. Homicide remains far below the early-1990s peak. The weapons the political debate focuses on most intensely-like rifles-account for a fraction of firearm deaths. Meanwhile, media coverage of homicide is 40 to 50 times its actual share of American mortality. That gap is where honest firearms policy begins.Written by Jonathan S. Goldstein, a firearms attorney with a national practice, Essential Questions in Firearms Law exposes the difference between what we think we know about gun violence and what the evidence actually shows. It examines what comparative regulation teaches us, why prohibition fails, where policy goes wrong, and what a more rigorous approach would look like.This book is for anyone tired of talking points and ready for facts-whether you're a gun owner, policymaker, or someone simply exhausted by an uninformed debate.