Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide | Zendy

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Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide

Author(s) -

Edwards Griffin,

Nesson Erik,

Robinson Joshua J.,

Vars Fredrick

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12567

Subject(s) - homicide , statutory law , violent crime , demographic economics , business , poison control , suicide prevention , criminology , economics , political science , medicine , psychology , law , medical emergency

We exploit within‐state variation across time in both the existence and length of statutory delays – both explicit wait periods and delays created by licensing requirements – between the purchase and delivery of a firearm to examine the effect of purchase delays on homicides and suicides. We find that the existence of a purchase delay reduces firearm‐related suicides by between 2% and 5% with no statistically significant increase in non‐firearm suicides. Purchase delays are not associated with statistically significant changes in homicide rates.

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