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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...
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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...
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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 …
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-called ''Ferguson Effect''--a sharp increase in violent crime in urban and Black communities after 2014--might be partially explained by …
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