handgun

When a gun is used in a crime, it is almost always a handgun.

Example 1 of this is Alabama's concealed handgun license scheme, which up until recently was may-issue (the state is permitted to give a license, but not required).

Yeah, if the marine opens the cockpit a crack and fires a handgun at the enemy.

In fact you can hook up computer systems to non-obvious weapons such as a handgun if you really wanted to.

That said, thus far, handgun regulations are the most easily struck down under Heller & McDonald.

How many people have been injured by a handgun on a plane or in an airport in the past 20 years?

I wonder what that would look like if you looked specifically at handgun ownership rather than overall gun ownership.

Much like California's handgun drop-safety requirement is currently perceived as an attempt to discourage handgun ownership, by making them less available, or Texas' recent abortion regulations are perceived as an attempt to make abortions less available.

The way I see it, there are two reasons a person might want a handgun.

However, a crazy relative can still kill you without a handgun.

And while it's common to have a rifle in your truck in rural areas, you can't legally carry around a handgun in the middle of Helsinki.

I have a single handgun, so I must be a homicidal maniac, right?

I like the argument "but but but what if the drone accidentally delivers a handgun to a kid think of the children"--kinda reaching for straws.

The sea change of going after "assault weapons" has less to do with mass shootings and more to do with the Brady group's adaptation to the court's relative intractability on handgun regulations.