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Media Mention: Where the suspected Georgia school shooter got the gun, and more questions answered
A day after the fatal shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, authorities are releasing more information about the gun used in the incident that killed two students and two teachers and wounded nine others. Dr. April Zeoli spoke with CBS News about extreme risk protection orders and how they can be filed, used as a firearm […]
Media Mention: Governor Whitmer Makes Appointments to Boards and Commissions
Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the following appointments to the Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs, Michigan Workforce Development Board, Advisory Board for the Michigan Intelligence Operations Center for Homeland Security, Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, Oakland University Board of Trustees, and MEDC Executive Committee. Today’s appointees represent Michigan’s young professionals, communities […]
Gaps in firearms relinquishment laws may weaken court orders, increase illegal gun possession
State and federal laws across the United States prohibiting firearm possession in cases of domestic violence often lack enforcement mechanisms, which may lead to continued possession of firearms despite court orders, according to a University of Michigan study. The lack of specificity in firearm relinquishment laws—which authorize a court to order individuals to give up […]
Media Mention: Dual Tragedies: Domestic Homicide-Suicides with a Firearm
Report introduction: “To document the circumstances and bring attention to the effects of these incidents, in 2024, Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund conducted focus groups with 43 survivors of intimate partner homicide-suicide. The focus group participants were people who survived an attempted intimate partner homicide-suicide, family members, and individuals closely involved with the incident. […]
Safe firearm storage toolkit developed by the University of Michigan now available online
A digital toolkit designed to support adherence to Michigan’s newly enacted safe firearm storage law is now available through the University of Michigan. Developed by the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, the free online toolkit provides guidance on how to safely store firearms in accordance with the Michigan law that took effect in February. Michigan’s new Child […]
Surgeon general declares firearm violence a public health crisis: U-M experts available
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has declared firearm violence a public health crisis, saying it’s time to deploy approaches similar to lifesaving anti-smoking and traffic safety campaigns to decrease deaths and injuries caused by guns. Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, School of Public Health and Michigan Medicine have endorsed this […]
Supreme Court to decide if domestic abusers can own guns
EXPERT ADVISORY The University of Michigan’s April Zeoli, one of the nation’s leading researchers on firearms and domestic violence, can discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s impending decision on United States v. Rahimi, a ruling that will either nullify or preserve laws that allow courts to grant restraining orders that prevent domestic abusers from possessing a firearm. […]
What parents in Michigan – and everywhere – should know about secure gun storage after the Crumbley convictions
Drs. April Zeoli and Justin Heinze join Dr. Frank E. Vandervort in this editorial, published in The Conversation, that speaks about the evidence base behind safe storage policies and other firearm injury prevention strategies that adults can utilize to reduce firearm-related harms among youth. Additional media mentions Yahoo! News New Haven Register SFGate goskagit.com Houston […]
Media Mention: Opinion: Youth gun offenses up 200% in Buncombe; gun violence is public health problem
According to the N.C. Department of Public Safety, firearms are the leading cause of injury-related death of children and young people in North Carolina. Last year, Gov. Roy Cooper announced the Secure All Firearms Effectively initiative to encourage North Carolinians to take action to safely store their firearms to save lives. This executive order is meant to […]
Media Mention: Sufficiently Analogous Episode Two: U.S. v Rahimi and the future of Domestic Violence Protective Order Firearm Prohibitions
The Center’s director of law and policy, Kelly Roskam, JD, and law and policy advisor, Tim Carey, JD discuss U.S. v Rahimi. The upcoming decision from the Supreme Court could decide if those subject to domestic violence protective orders can possess firearms, as well as clarify how courts are supposed to handle Second Amendment cases in a […]
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