Gun Policy News
US Army Caters for 70% Drop in US Youths Who Own Guns
10 September 2016
Washington Post, Associated Press
As gun ownership drops among young Americans and the Army trains a generation more accustomed to blasting out emojis on cellphones than taking aim at targets, drill sergeants are confronting a new challenge: More than half of raw recruits have never held, let alone fired, a weapon.
Young people who form the bulk of the Army's rookie soldiers don't have nearly the exposure to guns as past generations. And the drill sergeants tasked with transforming these men and women... (GunPolicy.org)