Guns and Crime

Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. Marvell

Southern Economic Journal, 2005, vol. 71, issue 4, 720-736

Abstract: We estimate several models of handguns and crime based on state‐level panel data for 1977‐1998 using both General Social Survey data on gun availability and a new measure of handgun prevalence. We find that handguns have a negligible effect on crime. Apparently, there is either no causation between guns and crime, or a rough equilibrium between criminals who use guns in the commission of crime and ordinary citizens who use guns to defend themselves and deter crime.

Date: 2005
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