The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime

by | Jun 23, 2023

Substantial evidence has documented a powerful “instrumentality” effect: the more lethal the weaponry employed, the greater the likelihood that death will result from any given assault. This finding provides the foundation for the subsequent findings that a variety of...

More Gun Carrying, More Violent Crime

by | Aug 30, 2022

Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell (2018) have offered a number of criticisms of some older work on the impact of RTC laws on crime, while ignoring the recent literature that has found a strong connection between such laws and violent crime and/or murder (Siegel et al....

Laws Facilitating Gun Carrying and Homicide

by | Aug 24, 2022

In “Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States,” Siegel et al. (p. 1923) estimate the impact of right-tocarry (RTC) laws on murders over the period from 1991 to 2015. They advance the current literature in a number of...

A Panel-based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the US

by | Dec 22, 2021

There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and more refined proxy. It is...