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Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....
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to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …
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This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV …) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which …
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handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the …
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There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills...
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Thousands of gun shows take place in the U.S. each year. Gun control advocates argue that because sales at gun shows are much less regulated than other sales, such shows make it easier for potential criminals to obtain a gun. Similarly, one might be concerned that gun shows would exacerbate...
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citizens an unimpeded right to secure permits for concealed weapons) reduce violent crime. While certain facially plausible … more guns, less crime hypothesis. The most robust finding on the state data is that certain property crimes rise with … in most states shall- issue laws have been associated with more crime and that the apparent stimulus to crime tends to be …
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Crime Victimization Survey, to produce the first systematic estimates of the net effects of gun prevalence on residential …
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This paper examines the relationship between gun ownership and crime. Previous research has suffered from a lack of … murders in which a gun is used. The effect of gun ownership on all other crime categories is much less marked. Recent … on crime, and reject the hypothesis that these laws led to increases in gun ownership or reductions in criminal activity …
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statistical models by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime …-reducing RTC laws, now only generate statistically significant estimates showing RTC laws increase overall violent crime and … crime. To the extent the large increases in gun thefts induced by RTC laws generate crime increases in non-RTC states, the …
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