Firearms: Another peculiar American institution

It's Legal but it Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 74-100

  Diaz, Tom ^a  

^a Violence Policy Center   (United States)

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