This article empirically examines the relationship between suicides and firearm control laws. Firearm license to purchase or waiting period to purchase laws were found to reduce a state’s suicide rate of white males aged 20-64 by three suicides per 100, 000...
Studies of firearm control laws do not appear to have statistically significant lower rates of homicides, robberies, or aggravated assaults than States without such laws. An analysis of the 1968 GCA — using a single equation model that controls for various...
