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GUN CONTROL AND POLITICAL POWER
Author(s) -
KESSLER RAYMOND G.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1983.tb00305.x
Subject(s) - politics , gun control , power (physics) , control (management) , distribution (mathematics) , political science , law , economics , physics , mathematics , management , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics
Most of the debate over gun control policy has slighted the possible relationship between such policies and the distribution of political power. Five political functions of firearms control laws are discussed and examples are provided.