Guns and violence -- Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck

Abstract

Professor Kleck ends his book with his recommendations for policy, and it is a surprise ending, indeed: rather than advocating the abolition of gun-control laws, which is what we are led to expect given the overall thrust of the previous chapters, he concludes by advocating a modest expansion of controls: the imposition of additional restrictions on who is eligible to possess a gun, together with a requirement that all transactions involving guns be conducted by federally licensed dealers and include a criminal-record check of the buyer.