TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Easiness of legal access to concealed firearm permits and homicide rates in the United States
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Siegel, Michael
A1  - Xuan, Ziming
A1  - Ross, Craig S.
A1  - Galea, Sandro
A1  - Kalesan, Bindu
A1  - Fleegler, Eric
A1  - Goss, Kristin A.
SP  - 1923
EP  - 1929
VL  - 107
IS  - 12
N2  - 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Shall-issue laws are associated with significantly higher rates of total, firearm-related, and handgun-related homicide. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print October 19, 2017: e1-e7. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304057
ID  - ref1
ER  -