Can Handguns Be Effectively Regulated ?
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People and guns involved in denied and completed handgun sales.
OBJECTIVE Denial of handgun purchases by prohibited people and knowledge of the structure of gun commerce have helped to deter and prevent firearm violence. The authors hypothesize that handguns involved in a denied purchase would more closely resemble those used in crime compared with handguns sold. DESIGN Cross sectional. SETTING Denied and completed handgun sales in California, 1998-2000...
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We study a theoretical general equilibrium environment in which the only activity of interest is armed robbery. Agents choose whether to be citizens or robbers, and whether to purchase handguns. Armed citizens can protect themselves from robbery but any armed agent runs the risk of accidentally shooting himself or another agent. The government chooses a gun tax, and the intensity of police effo...
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