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Learn Something Interesting: The Inability of the U.S. Government to Enforce Safety Regulations for Firearms and the Consequences of This

In the U.S., firearms are one of the few products which are exempt from federal consumer product safety regulations. This exemption derives from the Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972 which explicitly prevents the Consumer Product Safety Commission from regulating firearms and ammunition. As a direct result, there remains no federal agency responsible for ensuring…