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Many Americans do not know that guns made in this country are subject to no consumer product safety standards. In order to address this complete lack of consumer product safety standards, the Massachusetts Attorney General implemented the most stringent set of gun safety standards in the country - without the need to pass any legislation.

The Massachusetts Attorney General was empowered by a state law modeled after the Federal Trade Commission Act, which allows the Attorney General to address unfair and deceptive trade practices, including unnecessarily unsafe products.

The report, "Targeting Safety," focuses on this state law and the Massachusetts gun safety standards, and examines other states with similarly empowered state attorneys general and additional gun safety standards that state attorneys general can implement to make guns safer and help save lives.

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Targeting Safety: How State Attorneys General Can Act Now to Save Lives