Tag: mental health

Shooting Group Pledges Money for Suicide Prevention

Shooting Group Pledges Money for Suicide Prevention

Effort seeks to avert 10,000 deaths over the next decade

Mental health and suicide prevention is taking center stage in a new campaign funded by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. This top trade group in the gun industry is partnering with the country’s leading suicide prevention organization, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Together the…
Posted 8 years ago
By Reed Gilchrist
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In Oregon, Bar Your Neighbor From Buying Guns

Just claim he's nuts.

Right from the annals of horrible ideas comes a recent bill which has been introduced into the Oregon legislature which would effectively allow a person who suspects another person of being "mentally unstable" to be barred from purchasing a firearm.  Surely, you may ask, there…
Posted 9 years ago
By James England
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