The Scope of Regulatory Authority Under the Second Amendment

Rosenthal, Lawrence; Winkler, Adam

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“…Nearly 95% of post‐ Heller Second Amendment claims have failed. At this writing, we still have no clear indication of what the Supreme Court will end up doing to resolve all of the open questions about the newfound freedom created by Heller and McDonald (Blocher and Miller, ; Rosenthal and Winkler, ).…”

Section: Evolution Of Firearms Policymentioning

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Challenge of Firearms Control in a Free Society

Cook

2018

Criminology & Public Policy

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Chapter 10 of The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, titled "Control of Firearms," is a brief but strong statement in support of regulating gun transactions, possession, and carrying, with several specific recommendations, including the adoption of universal gun registration and permit-to-purchase requirements. The U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, when writing the chapter, had no systematic research to draw on. Since its publication in 1967, the field of gun violence has become an active area of research, and much has been learned. But the nation has become far more polarized politically during the last 50 years, and gun policy has become a rigidly partisan issue. A new commission would have great difficulty reaching consensus, although there may be common ground on regulating guns vis-à-vis mental illness and domestic violence.

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Section: Evolution Of Firearms Policymentioning

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Challenge of Firearms Control in a Free Society

Cook

2018

Criminology & Public Policy

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Gun Markets

Cook

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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The systematic study of how available weapons influence the rates, patterns, and outcomes of criminal violence is new, but it is now a well-established and fast-growing subfield in criminology, legal studies, public health, and economics. This review focuses on the transactions that arm dangerous offenders, noting that if those transactions could be effectively curtailed it would have an immediate and profound effect on gun violence and homicide rates. Guns are legal commodities, but violent offenders typically obtain their guns by illegal means. Our knowledge of these transactions comes primarily from trace data on guns recovered by the police and from occasional surveys of gun-involved offenders. Because most guns used in crime are sourced from the stock of guns in private hands (rather than a purchase from a licensed dealer), the local prevalence of gun ownership appears to influence the transaction costs and the proportions of robberies and assaults committed with guns rather than knives or other weapons. Nonetheless, regulations that govern licensed dealers have been linked to trafficking patterns and in some cases to the use of guns in crime.

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The Scope of Regulatory Authority Under the Second Amendment

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Challenge of Firearms Control in a Free Society

Challenge of Firearms Control in a Free Society

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