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Firearm safe-storage rules help stop tragic child deaths

Keeping firearms where kids can get at them in foster homes or home day cares is a recipe for death, injury and trauma. Learn more with the AMA.

Judicial Advocacy
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Litigation Center cases

View cases where the Litigation Center is providing assistance.

Judicial Advocacy
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How to identify gun-violence hot spots to prevent injuries, deaths

AMA member Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, says there’s been a 10%–35% rise in firearms deaths during the pandemic, depending on the community. Learn more.

Injury & Violence
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AMA statement on bipartisan firearm safety bill becoming law

AMA applauds new law to confront the public health crisis of gun violence.

Press Releases
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June 24, 2022: National Advocacy Update

New AMA policies and strategies to prevent firearm violence and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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AMA applauds Senate passage of bipartisan firearm safety legislation

AMA applauds the senators who negotiated and wrote the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and we urge the House of Representatives to act quickly and pass this legislation.

Press Releases
 Gun safety advocates rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Supreme Court strikes down New York’s reasonable concealed-carry law

The U.S. Supreme Court’s harmful and disturbing 6–3 decision will frustrate appropriate responses to the public health crisis of firearms violence.

Judicial Advocacy
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AMA: Supreme Court ruling on 2nd amendment weakens public-safety policy

AMA disappointed with the Supreme Court’s harmful and disturbing decision to strike down a NY state measure regulating concealed carry licenses for handguns.

Press Releases
2022 Annual Meeting of AMA House of Delegates session
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ICYMI: 10 stories to read from the 2022 AMA Annual Meeting

The House of Delegates moved to protect patients and doctors from the criminalization of care, gun violence and the public health “infodemic.”

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