Gun policy analyst and author of Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America, and The Last Gun: How the Gun Industry Is Killing Americans and What We Can Do to Stop It; former Democratic counsel to the House Subcommittee on Crime, he also worked as a senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center in Washington, DC
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