Gun Policy News
At 6 Months, Impact of Gun Law is Unclear
4 January 2002
Detroit Free Press, Opinion
On July 1, county gun boards across Michigan began handing out concealed weapon permits to most law-abiding applicants who passed a gun safety course.
Now, six months and 21,000 newly pistol-packin neighbors later, are we feeling safer?
Ross Dykman is. He's the director of the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners, one of several groups that lobbied for the controversial right-to-carry law.
Dykman concedes that it's too early to document what, if any, impact... (GunPolicy.org)