A comparison of firearms - Related legislation on four continents

Medicine and Law

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-111

  Bauer, Arie ^a,b   Grinshpoon, Alex ^a   Garashonvinski, Adrian ^a   Kalian, Moshe ^a   Mester, Roberto ^b,c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NESS ZIONA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comparison; Control; Countries; Culture; Firearms; Legislation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FIREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; ISRAEL; JAPAN; LAW; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WEAPON;

EID: 0038750568     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Mats Persson (m95perm@mtek.chalmers.se) (1999) About firearms laws in Sweden. Former Webpage, March.
2. Second Amendment of the U.S.A. Constitution (1791).
3. National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (National Institute of Justice), 1994.
4. The Federal Gun Control Act, 1968.
5. The Permanent Brady Act, 1998.
6. Revision of the Firearms and Swords Control 1993.
7. David B. Kopel (1993), "Japanese gun control", 2 Asia Pac. L. Rev. 26-52
8. The Israel Firearms Act, 1949.
9. The Israel Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom, 1992.
10. Grinshpoon A., Bauer A., Mark M. & Mester R., "Evaluation of mental capability to use firearms", HaRephuah. In Press.
11. BBC NEWS, World Service (Internet). Monday, 16th July 2001.
12. McClelland N. (1995) "The assessment of dangerousness: A procedure for predicting potentially dangerous behavior". Psychiatric Care, 2:17-19.