“While easily concealable handguns account for the majority of the average daily 130 firearm deaths and 150 injuries (including a child shot every 30 minutes and seven killed every day), many mass shootings occur with military-style assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines carrying 30 or more rounds. The semiautomatic AR-15, which has accounted for millions of gun sales, was modeled after the M4 carbine and the M16, which was intended for use on the battlefield, not America’s streets.”

Read John's full op ed here.

So good isn’t always good enough — not when lives are at stake. And no state can afford to be complacent — not as long as criminals can turn to such innovative options as untraceable ghost guns. And no state can afford to sit back and wait for its own tough gun laws to be eroded by a Supreme Court bent on imposing its 18th-century view of the Second Amendment on streets bloodied by gun violence that is all too modern.

Read Boston Globe Editorial here.

At least 17% of the weapons — or 316 — were so-called “ghost guns,” or privately made firearms that cannot be traced, according to the report. That’s a 75% increase over 2021, the [state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security] agency said.

Read the Newburyport Daily News here.

“We as a society have a real challenge in acknowledging that harm is happening within our own homes, and that also means we have to talk about who’s causing that harm,”

Sarang-Sieminski of Jane Doe, Inc. 

Read Boston Globe News here.

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