Guns and Violence tells a remarkable story of a society's self-destruction, of how a government in a few decades managed to reverse six hundred years of social progress in violence reduction. The book is also a testament to the amazing self-confidence of British governments; Labour and...

Limited by the lack of data on gun ownership in the United States, ecological research linking firearms ownership rates to homicide often relies on proxy measures of ownership. Although the variable of interest is the gun ownership rate, not the proxy, the existing research does not formally...

We investigate how mass shootings influence the stock price of firearms manufacturers. While it is well known that mass shootings lead to increased firearms sales, the response from financial markets is unclear. On one hand, given the observed short-term increase in demand, firearm stock prices...

Current public health research on gun violence refers to its epidemiology; i.e., understanding where, when and how gun violence events take place. There is also a subset of this research which predates most of the epidemiological approaches to the problem that attempts to analyze the costs of...

The second paper in a series about murder and guns. This paper reviews the different data sources used to compile murder numbers and develops a profile of the 'average' murder victim where the murder is committed with the use of a gun. The paper also looks at data discrepancies between medical...

There is a strong, significant correlation between the annual number of firearms manufactured for sale in the civilian market, and the annual number of retail sales transactions processed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Federal Bureau of Investigation...