IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.2017.304057_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Easiness of legal access to concealed firearm permits and homicide rates in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Siegel, M.
  • Xuan, Z.
  • Ross, C.S.
  • Galea, S.
  • Kalesan, B.
  • Fleegler, E.
  • Goss, K.A.

Abstract

Objectives. To examine the relation of “shall-issue” laws, in which permits must be issued if requisite criteria are met; “may-issue” laws, which give law enforcement officials wide discretion over whether to issue concealed firearm carry permits or not; and homicide rates. Methods. We compared homicide rates in shall-issue and may-issue states and total, firearm, nonfirearm, handgun, and long-gun homicide rates in all 50 states during the 25-year period of 1991 to 2015. We included year and state fixed effects and numerous state-level factors in the analysis. Results. Shall-issue laws were significantly associated with 6.5% higher total homicide rates, 8.6% higher firearm homicide rates, and 10.6% higher handgun homicide rates, but were not significantly associated with long-gun or nonfirearm homicide. Conclusions. Shall-issue laws are associated with significantly higher rates of total, firearm-related, and handgun-related homicide.

Suggested Citation

  • Siegel, M. & Xuan, Z. & Ross, C.S. & Galea, S. & Kalesan, B. & Fleegler, E. & Goss, K.A., 2017. "Easiness of legal access to concealed firearm permits and homicide rates in the United States," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 107(12), pages 1923-1929.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2017.304057_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ram Gopalan & Tingnan Lin, 2022. "Tackling gun violence: is systems thinking necessary?," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 59(3), pages 908-929, September.
    2. John J. Donohue & Abhay Aneja & Kyle D. Weber, 2019. "Right‐to‐Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State‐Level Synthetic Control Analysis," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(2), pages 198-247, June.
    3. Barati, Mehdi & Adams, Scott, 2019. "Enhanced penalties for carrying firearms illegally and their effects on crime," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 207-219.
    4. Bilgel, Firat, 2020. "State Gun Control Laws, Gun Ownership and the Supply of Homicide Organ Donors," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2017.304057_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.