More guns = more gun murders. Whoda thunk it?

NOT!

Nothing inherently anti-2nd amendment about it either. No registration associated with it.

I'd do it. I'm already holding a CPL, so it's not like the government doesn't have a pretty good idea I have guns anyway.

Missouri still requires background checks to purchase firearms from any licensed dealer. It's part of federal firearms law and no state is exempted from it. I think what they meant was that Missouri abandoned the state-conducted background check you undergo when you get a permit-to-purchase a handgun; the gun store must still conduct a federal background check before the sale. And a background check and permit-to-purchase is really no impediment at all; you fill out a 1-2 page form at your local police station, wait 6-10 days, and you get your permit.



The year the law changed and this study started (2007) overlapped with the still-ongoing boom in firearms and ammo sales brought on by paranoia and hysteria that President Obama would enact new gun control legislation. I'd imagine such paranoia would run especially high in a red state like Missouri. With or without a change to gun licensing requirements, it seems likely the residents of Missouri would have kept legally buying guns at a higher than normal level, which would definitely have an impact on the number of guns finding their way into the hands of those who couldn't legally own them.

I just don't get the connection. Idiots, guns, homicides. They are clearly all in separate domains.

They are after all used in the vast majority of all shootings.

They are ignoring the national trajectory and crediting the results with the assinine law, ignorning the people who've been shot and would probably have been safe without this idiot statute. Obviously, increasing access to guns = more killed. That "one good guy" theory is patently absurd when there were several mass killing at military bases.