Alan Korwin's Gun Laws Of America

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He sits in a light brown chair wearing a charcoal grey suit, white shirt, blue and grey striped tie. An American flag is pinned to his lapel. The President of the United States of America speaking from the Oval Office. He is discussing the recent events that dominated the headlines. Several days ago a lone gunman walked into an Orlando nightclub and killed 49 people. Obama says, "We are going to have to make sure that we think about the risks we are willing to take by being so lax in how we make very powerful firearms available to people in this country.” The President says that we are to “lax” on gun control, however Alan Korwin, co-author of “Gun Laws of America”, has added up 271 federal gun statutes. With this volume of law and statues

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