School shootings ... Mandatory background checks for gun and ammunition purchases. Higher spending on mental health. Higher spending on K-12 education. As of 2013, when the study began, the ...

The chance a child will get shot at school is significantly lower if their state has mandatory background checks, according to a study released Wednesday in the journal Injury Prevention.

Adolescents in states that require universal background checks were ... dean at the Boston University School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. "Showing that NICS and UBC ...

Passing federal laws that require universal background ... related suicide have been on the rise and now outnumber homicide two to one. In an editorial published with the study, Harvard School ...

Background checks alone might not be enough to reduce shooting deaths in the United States, a new study warns ... medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.