+ Where the Guns Come From: The Gun Industry and Gun Commerce
- Author:
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Wintemute, Garen J.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- The Future of Children
- Topics:
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Age Group, Legislation and Policy, Supply
- Keywords:
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Commerce, Firearms, Gun Control Laws, Weapons, gun markets
The author examines how the gun industry works in the United States, especially as it actively promotes and makes guns accessible to children. He discusses how markets work, focusing on the lacking regulation...
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+ Effects of a gun dealer's change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminals
- Author:
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Webster, D. W. / Vernick, J. S. / Bulzacchelli, M. I.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Urban Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Crime, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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CRIME, Firearms/ economics, Licensure, Marketing, UNITED States
On May 10, 1999, a single gun store that had sold more than half of the guns recovered from criminals in Milwaukee, WI shortly following retail sale, stopped selling small, inexpensive handguns popular...
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+ The Relational Dynamics of Illegal Firearm Transactions
- Author:
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Morselli, Carlo
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Canadian Journal of Criminology
- Topics:
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Crime, Supply
- Keywords:
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Firearms, Inmate, Montreal, illegal market
The author analyzed data from interviews with 21 adult male inmates who had succeeded in acquiring firearms illegally in the Montreal region between 1982 and 1995 to evaluate the social networks between...
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+ Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal violence, 1984-1997
- Author:
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Ousey GC / Lee MR
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Topics:
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Criminology, Ethnicity, Homicide, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, Market, Race, drug
The authors examine the relationship between trends of homicide rates in the 1980s and 1990s and the changes in illegal drug markets and law enforcement attempts to regulate these markets, using information...
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+ Reduction in FFLs: A step in the right direction
- Author:
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Azrael, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Topics:
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Criminology, Legislation and Policy, Supply, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Audit, Dealer, Firearms, UNITED States, gun market
The author responds to an article published by Koper in Criminology & Public Policy. She notes that, after the 1993-1994 reforms regarding federal firearms licensing requirements, the marginal cost of...
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+ Engaging health professionals in advocacy against gun violence
- Author:
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Pinto AD
- Date:
- 2008
- Publication:
- Med Confl Surviv
- Topics:
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Education/Counseling, International
- Keywords:
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Canada, Consumer Advocacy, Health Personnel, Health Promotion, Social Marketing
The author discusses advocacy to reduce gun violence, particularly in developing nations, focusing on the work of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). The IPPNW helped...
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+ Taxation of the Global Arms Trade? An Overview of the Issues
- Author:
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Brzoska M
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Kyklos
- Topics:
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International, Legislation and Policy
- Keywords:
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Market, gun market, model
The author reviews various aspects of an international arms trade tax, including goals, and ethical and practical obstacles. Objectives of such a tax are: reduction of the trade volume in arms, reductions...
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+ Policies to prevent firearm trafficking
- Author:
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Vernick, J. S. / Webster, D. W.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Supply
- Keywords:
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Commerce, Crossover, Legislation, Market
The vast majority of firearms used in violent crime were initially purchased from a licensed dealer by a person deemed legally eligible before crossing over to the illicit market. The authors review policies...
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+ Countermarketing in the courts: The case of marketing channels and firearms diversion
- Author:
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Bradford, K. D. / Gundlach, G. T. / Wilkie, W. L.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Supply, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Distribution system, Diversion, Marketing, UNITED States
The authors examine ways in which the firearms distribution system in the U.S. both contributes to and addresses the problem of diversion of firearms from legal to illegal market. There are six principle...
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+ Beyond market share liability: A theory of proportional share liability for nonfungible products
- Author:
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Rostron A
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- UCLA Law Review
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Social Science, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Market, liability, litigation
The author argues that courts should allow extension of market share liability strategies to be applied in the case of products involving varying degrees of risk (i.e. are non-fungible), and determine...
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+ The market for new handguns: An empirical investigation
- Author:
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Bice, D. C. / Hemley, D. D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Journal of Law & Economics
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Supply, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Market, SUPPLY, handguns, sales data
The authors used sales data for the period 1961-1994 to create a supply-and-demand model for the emerging handgun market, by evaluating the effect of price, income, expenditures on police, violent crime...
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