Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Gun politics

Gun Politics Task Force is a task force of WikiProject Politics. The task force aims to improve articles related to gun politics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope
The Gun politics task force aims to coordinate, expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics broadly related to governmental regulation of firearm ownership. Examples of items within this scope include:
 * Legislation such as Firearms policy in the United Kingdom
 * Lobbying and advocacy groups such as NRA and Brady Campaign
 * Mass shootings such as Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
 * Firearms with a connection to these topics such as Ruger Mini-14

Goals

 * Develop best practices for applying Wikipedia policies, guidelines and consensus to articles within the scope of Gun politics
 * Improve neutral coverage of gun crimes in related articles
 * Practical work in relation to the scope.

Participants
You can become a member by adding your name to the list below.
 * Dlthewave
 * Ｔｏｍ
 * MrX
 * K.e.coffman
 * BullRangifer
 * Krapenhoeffer
 * Lightningboltz03
 * Fluous
 * Tomwsulcer
 * HiLo48
 * FormalDude

Tasks

 * Guidelines for sources should be discussed and policy found. Gunlaws articles f.e. should prefer sources, based on original publications from the country’s. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 20:23, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Add project banner to all related articles
 * Firearm
 * Handgun
 * Rifle
 * Add GA/FA Showcase

WikiProject Politics Banner
 

The banner may be placed on the talk page of any article within the scope of the Task Force. If the page already has a WP:Politics banner, simply add the "gun-politics = yes" parameter.


 * class - The article's quality rating within the parent WikiProject Politics: FA, GA, A, B, C, Start, Stub, Category or List.
 * gun-politics-importance - The article's importance to the gun politics task force: Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.

Invite
GunPoliticsInvite

The Invite template may be used to invite individual editors or participants of other WikiProjects to join the Task Force.

Userbox
User Gun Politics

Alerts
See Article alerts to subscribe or view archives.

Categories
Category:Gun politics task force articles

Active

 * RfC: Second Amendment sanctuary
 * M1911 pistol - Criminal use
 * AR-15 style rifle - Weapon of choice in the media
 * Reliable sources noticeboard - "By the media" qualification


 * Reliable sources noticeboard - RfC: Wound characteristics of military-style rifles

Inactive

 * Colt AR-15 - RfC: Port Arthur Massacre (Closed with "consensus for inclusion" 14 May 2018)
 * RfC: Coverage of mass shootings in firearms articles (See RfC for close; 4 April 2018)
 * |NPOV Noticeboard: Crime, guns and due weight

Arbitration

 * Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control (2014)

New Wikipedia articles related to Gun politics

 * 2022 Raleigh shooting

Port Arthur massacre

 * Improvement and fact check for Port Arthur massacre (Australia)
 * Additional Literature:
 * Simon Chapman: Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's Fight for Gun Control, ISBN 1743320310 (275 Pages),(read online)
 * Improvement in the article => fact check in little steps. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 17:40, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Gun laws in Australia

 * Improvement and fact check for Gun laws in Australia
 * Problems seen so far:
 * the article has grown over the years and needs to be restructured.
 * the article contains more "side by side" info than concentrated info according to the lemma.
 * the article is incomplete and outdated concerning the laws and changes
 * a section off Major players in gun politics in Australia Federal government needs to be checked. Infos concerning "A TANGLED WEB OF POLICE CORRUPTION " (see lit above) is missing.
 * Improvement in the article => fact check in little steps. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 18:22, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Related projects

 * WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
 * WikiProject Firearms

Resources

 * ATF CRIME GUN TRACE REPORTS (1999) National Report online
 * ATF P 5300.5 State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms (2004 - 25th Edition) online (optional: Download the entire publication (5.8 Mb))
 * ATF 2004 Oktober online

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.