Using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System for South Carolina from 1991 to 1994, the authors explore how gun availability is related to violent crime, gun crime, youth gun crime and... read more >

The author argues against the use of criminal law to reduce the risk of harm from guns or drugs. He describes overcriminalization in the case of offenses designed to prevent the risk of harm rather than... read more >

The authors examine the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis and argue that the evidence in favor of the hypothesis is limited, sporadic, and extraordinarily fragile; changes in methodological techniques... read more >

The author replies to a Science Editorial about research fraud in gun research that cast doubt on the authenticity of Lott’s work. The author notes that the editor did not mention that even an anti-gun... read more >

The author, after examining data collected by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in the 1990s and reviewing several studies of firearm sentence enhancements (FSEs) laws, which require judges to impose increased... read more >

This study uses data from national and local sources to examine the impact of a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1994 that bans a group of military-style semiautomatic firearms and ammunition magazines... read more >

The National Research Collaborative on Firearm Violence was formed in 2005 to review the findings of a report on firearms and violence from the National Academy of Sciences and create a research plan... read more >

The author comments on Volpe v. Gallagher and critiques the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision against a mother, whose son, residing at their home and being mentally ill, had shot and killed a neighbor... read more >

The authors evaluated Florida’s 1987 “Right-to-Carry” (RTC) law, using use panel data for 58 Florida counties from 1980 to 2000 to examine the effects on violent crime from increases in the number of... read more >

The authors respond to an article by two other scholars who analyzed Lott’s county-level crime data and concluded that the measurement errors in the dataset bring his gun law research based on this data... read more >

The authors respond to Lott and Whitley’s critique of their analyses of errors in county-level Uniform Crime Reports data that Lott has used in his research supporting the “more guns, less crime” hypothesis... read more >