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Article posted: 12/22/2012 7:22 AM

We have the technology to make safer guns

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Guns are exempt from most of the consumer safety laws that improved the rest of American life. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which was established in 1972, is charged with looking over thousands of different kinds of products.

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Research shows that it's possible to make safer firearms. There are a slew of sensible technologies that gunmakers could add to their products that might prevent hundreds or thousands of deaths per year. Why aren't gunmakers making safer guns? Because guns are exempt from most of the consumer safety laws that improved the rest of American life.