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Police Stings of Gun Dealers Reduce the Supply of New Guns to Criminals

A series of undercover police sting operations in the Chicago area against gun dealers suspected of making illegal gun sales led to a 46 percent reduction in the supply of new guns to criminals, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Policy and Research. The study is published in the August 3, 2006, edition of the journal Injury Prevention.

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Doctor explaining the results of scan lung on digital tablet

The Guardian

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung
David Dowdy is quoted.

Cows feeding on farm.

Science News

A second version of bird flu is infecting cows. What does that mean?
Meghan Davis is quoted.

photo of young girl getting vaccinated

Associated Press

RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it
Amesh Adalja is quoted. 

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