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Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States.

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Siegel, M; Xuan, Z; Ross, CS; Galea, S; Kalesan, B; Fleegler, E; Goss, KA
Published in: American journal of public health
December 2017

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 firearm carry permits or not; and homicide rates.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.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.Shall-issue laws are associated with significantly higher rates of total, firearm-related, and handgun-related homicide.

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American journal of public health

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EISSN

1541-0048

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

December 2017

Volume

107

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1923 / 1929

Related Subject Headings

  • Wounds, Gunshot
  • United States
  • Public Health
  • Humans
  • Homicide
  • Firearms
  • Age Distribution
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Siegel, M., Xuan, Z., Ross, C. S., Galea, S., Kalesan, B., Fleegler, E., & Goss, K. A. (2017). Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 107(12), 1923–1929. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2017.304057
Siegel, Michael, Ziming Xuan, Craig S. Ross, Sandro Galea, Bindu Kalesan, Eric Fleegler, and Kristin A. Goss. “Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States.American Journal of Public Health 107, no. 12 (December 2017): 1923–29. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2017.304057.
Siegel M, Xuan Z, Ross CS, Galea S, Kalesan B, Fleegler E, et al. Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States. American journal of public health. 2017 Dec;107(12):1923–9.
Siegel, Michael, et al. “Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States.American Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 12, Dec. 2017, pp. 1923–29. Epmc, doi:10.2105/ajph.2017.304057.
Siegel M, Xuan Z, Ross CS, Galea S, Kalesan B, Fleegler E, Goss KA. Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States. American journal of public health. 2017 Dec;107(12):1923–1929.

Published In

American journal of public health

DOI

EISSN

1541-0048

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

December 2017

Volume

107

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1923 / 1929

Related Subject Headings

  • Wounds, Gunshot
  • United States
  • Public Health
  • Humans
  • Homicide
  • Firearms
  • Age Distribution
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences