Title: Targeting Safety: How States Attorney General Can Act Now to Save Lives

Publication Date: January 2001

What does it say?

The state of Massachusetts has used its statutes governing unfair and deceptive trade practices to implement consumer product safety regulations for handguns.  Twenty other states have the ability to empower state attorneys general or other state commissions to adopt gun safety regulations.  These states are Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia. 

How can I use it?

Use this report to convince your state leaders to take action to prevent children and teenagers from gun death and injury by implementing consumer product safety regulations.

Citation

Bhowmik, Rachana, Targeting Safety: How States Attorney General Can Act Now to Save Lives, Washington, DC: Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, 2001.