Black, Dan A; Nagin, Daniel S - In: The Journal of Legal Studies 27 (1998) 1, pp. 209-19
John R. Lott and David B. Mustard conclude that right-to-carry laws deter violent crime. Our reanalysis of Lott and Mustard's data provides no basis for drawing confident conclusions about the impact of right-to-carry laws on violent crime. We document that their results are highly sensitive to...