The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was … higher in the post-passage period (relative to national crime patterns) for states adopting right-to-carry (RTC) concealed … by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC …

violent crime when states adopt right-to-carry (RTC) concealed handgun laws. Our preferred panel data regression specification …, unlike the statistical model of Lott and Mustard that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC laws … overall violent crime. Our synthetic control approach also strongly confirms that RTC laws are associated with 13-15 percent …

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 …