Hot Paper Topics
Gun Control

• Coalition to Stop Gun Violence-- includes statistics, laws, regulations, studies and reports.
• Dept. of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms
• Firearms and Crime-- the relevant statistics, from the FBI.
• Firearm Mortality--data on gun-related deaths, homicides, suicides.
• Firearms Statistics -- how many are manufactured per year? of what caliber? latest stats from the ATF.
• Firearms-Unlawful Acts -- from the 2006 US code Title 18 Chapter 44, full-text. This is a primary resource.
• Gun Control--from About.com--a neutral, balanced collection of documents, laws, court cases, research, and position papers. Scroll down.
• Gun-Free Schools Act --the complete text from the 1994 US Code.
• Gun Laws by State -- report is in .pdf
• Policy.Com on Gun Control--a nice collection of documents, speeches, research, statistics.
• School-Associated Violent Deaths in the United States, 1994-1999 -- full report is in .pdf format.
• School-Associated Student Homicides --- United States, 1992--2006
• the Six Federal Gun Control Laws -- gives the gist of them.
• Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions -- from UCLA law school
• Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Emergency Rooms--abstract, with complete text downloadable in Acrobat or ASCII format.