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Second Reading Amendments <br />Ordinance No. 1834, Series 2022 is revised to read as follows (amendments are shown in bold underline <br />and bold strilieOU4): <br />ORDINANCE NO. 1834 <br />SERIES 2022 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9, ARTICLE VIII OF THE LOUISVILLE <br />MUNICIPAL CODE TO REQUIRE ALL FIREARM DEALERS TO POST SIGNS AT <br />ALL LOCATIONS WHERE FIREARM TRANSFERS TAKE PLACE <br />WHEREAS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) <br />Fatal Injury Reports for 2015 through 2019, on average 38,826 people die in the United States as <br />a result of firearms every year. Of these firearm deaths, 38 percent (14,583) are homicides and <br />60 percent (23,437) are suicides. An additional 483 deaths annually result from unintentional <br />shootings. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, an analysis of the National Emergency Department Sample indicates that <br />there are twice as many gun injuries as gun deaths, an average of 76,127 nonfatal firearms <br />injuries occur per year in the United States; and <br />WHEREAS, a meta -analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that <br />access to a gun doubles a person's risk of death by firearm homicide, and triples a person's risk <br />of death by firearm suicide; and <br />WHEREAS, a study published in the American Journal of Public Health concluded that <br />access to a firearm during an incident of domestic violence leads to a fivefold risk of homicide to <br />women by their intimate partner; and <br />WHEREAS, a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found <br />that higher firearm ownership rates are associated with higher domestic firearm homicide rates <br />among both female and male victims. States in the highest quartile of firearms ownership had a <br />65 percent higher domestic firearm homicide rate than states in the lowest quartile; and <br />WHEREAS, a study published in the American Journal of Public Health found a positive <br />and significant association between gun ownership and non -stranger firearm homicide rates, <br />indicating that gun ownership is associated with an increased likelihood of being shot and killed <br />by a family member or acquaintance; and <br />WHEREAS, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association <br />found that households that locked both firearms and ammunition were associated with a 78 <br />Ordinance No. 1834, Series 2022 <br />Page 1 of 6 <br />32 <br />