These laws are designed to eliminate the sale of cheap handguns often called “Saturday night specials.” The net effect of these laws on the handgun market is difficult to determine precisely, but in South Carolina, the melting-point laws, along with Bureau...
It is obvious to us that David Hemenway (H) had no intention of producing a balanced, intellectually serious assessment of our estimates of defensive gun use (DGU). Instead, his critique serves the narrow political purpose of “getting the estimate down,”...
Research on procedural justice and legitimacy suggests that compliance with the law is best secured not by mere threat of force, but by fostering beliefs in the fairness of the legal systems and in the legitimacy of legal actors. To date, however, this research has...
The analysis is based on six case studies which monitored the effects of mandatory sentencing on violent crime in Detroit, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Key features of mandatory sentencing laws were the same in each area: each required...
In this Article, we seek to help guide law enforcement activities targeting gun acquisition by high-risk people by examining two potentially important sources of crime guns: licensed retail dealers and traffickers. Limited data availability is a key reason more is not...
