NEW CPRC research: Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms’ effects on crime and suicide?

Jun 28, 2016 | Featured

Regulation Summer 2016

Regulation (Summer 2016) has published some new research by John Lott and Gary Mauser on “Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms’ effects on crime and suicide?”   A copy of the article is available here.

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  1. Tom Campbell

    Outstanding. I’ll send it to our federal and state legislators.

    I wish there had been participation from the UK.

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