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- Title
Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States.
- Authors
Siegel, Michael; Ziming Xuan; Ross, Craig S.; Galea, Sandro; Kalesan, Bindu; Fleegler, Eric; Goss, Kristin A.
- Abstract
Objectives. To examine the relation of “shall-issue” laws, in which permits must be issued if requisite criteria are met; “may-issue” laws, which give law enforcement officials wide discretion over whether to issue concealed permits or not; and homicide rates. Methods. We compared homicide rates in shall-issue and may-issue states and total, firearm, nonfirearm, handgun, and long-gun homicide rates in all 50 states during the 25-year period of 1991 to 2015. We included year and state fixed effects and numerous state-level factors in the analysis. Results. Shall-issue laws were significantly associated with 6.5% higher total homicide rates, 8.6% higher firearm homicide rates, and 10.6% higher handgun homicide rates, but were not significantly associated with long-gun or nonfirearm homicide. Conclusions. Shall-issue laws are associated with significantly higher rates of total, firearm-related, and handgun-related homicide.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CONCEALED weapons; HOMICIDE; FIREARM licenses; HOMICIDE rates; PREVENTION of shootings (Crime); STATE laws -- History; GUN laws; PREVENTION of firearms &; crime; HISTORY; U.S. states; COMPARATIVE studies; LONGITUDINAL method; STATISTICAL significance; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2017, Vol 107, Issue 12, p1923
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057