The first of four major gun bills at the Colorado legislature this session faced its first committee test on Monday. House Bill 23-1219 calls for a three-day waiting period on firearm purchases. via Meghan_Lopez
DENVER — The first of four major gun bills at the Colorado legislature this session faced its first committee test on Monday.
The bill cites a 2017 study that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in its justification for the legislation. The study looked at 45 years worth of data from the 1970s through 2014 and found that 44 states had imposed a waiting period at some point. A number of states had temporarily imposed a waiting period when the Brady Act was passed by Congress in 1994.
For the average state, the study concluded that waiting periods of some length could result in 36 fewer gun homicides per year and 22 to 35 fewer gun suicides per year.The study did not conclude, however, whether a shorter or longer waiting period was more effective. “At the end of the day, I think it can only enrich the debate to have more facts and more research on the table when these policy decisions are being made,” he said.
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