Does gun control reduce crime or does crime increase gun control?

Cato Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-124

  Moorhouse, John C ^a   Wanner, Brent ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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