This Article looks in detail at a very large positive externality which is overlooked in by firearms prohibitionists: the major role that widespread gun ownership plays in reducing the rate of home invasion burglaries (a.k.a. “hot burglaries”). Because...
This paper is an analysis of the uses of data generated by the federal program of tracing the origins of guns used in crime and confiscated by the police. The authors begin with details on the tracing process and new tabulations based on 1999 data for how guns are...
