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Large capacity magazines and homicide

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  • Carlisle E. Moody

    (Department of Economics, The College of William and Mary)

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Recent events have resulted in calls to ban large capacity magazines (LCMs) holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Using data from a Virginia data base of crime guns seized by police between 1993 and 2013, we find that the proportion of crime guns with LCMs declined after the 1994 Federal assault weapons ban and increased after the ban was lifted in 2004. However, we can find no evidence that LCMs increased either murder or gun murder, implying that the Federal LCM ban did not have the intended effect and that LCM bans are likely to be ineffective.

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  • Carlisle E. Moody, 2015. "Large capacity magazines and homicide," Working Papers 160, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary.
    • Handle: RePEc:cwm:wpaper:160
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    : large capacity magazines; homicide; gun homicide;
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    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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