Handgun Licensing and Registration – Endnotes

  1. “Firearm Registration and Owner Licensing—The International Experience,” Testimony of Philip Alpers before the California State Assembly Select Committee on Gun Violence, December 1, 1999 (Pacific Center for Violence Prevention), downloaded April 18, 2000, from www.pcvp.org/pcvp/firearms/Intl/testimo5.shtml; INTERNET. 
  2. Wendy Cukier, “Firearms Regulation: Canada in the International Context,” Chronic Diseases in Canada (Health Protection Branch—Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Canada), downloaded September 3, 1999,from www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/cdic/cdic191/ cd191d_e.html; INTERNET.
  3. Josh Sugarmann, National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower & Fear (Bethesda, MD: National Press Books, 1992): 29-32.
  4. House Committee on Ways and Means, National Firearms Act: Hearings on H.R. 9066, 73rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1934, 28.
  5. United Nations International Study on Firearm Regulation (New York: United Nations, 1998): 52-53, 108-109. Data years range from 1992 to 1995. All countries are 1994 or 1995, except for Sweden, which is 1992.
  6. Data from the 1998 FBI Supplementary Homicide Report and Sherry L. Murphy, “Deaths: Final Data for 1998,” National Vital Statistics Report 48, no. 11 (2000): 67. Analysis by the Violence Policy Center.
  7. Josh Sugarmann and Kristen Rand, Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1997): 4. 
  8. Where’d They Get Their Guns? (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, forthcoming).
  9. Where’d They Get Their Guns? (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, forthcoming).
  10. Where’d They Get Their Guns? (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, forthcoming).
  11. Where’d They Get Their Guns? (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, forthcoming).
  12. Josh Sugarmann and Kristen Rand, Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1997): 4. 
  13. Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH, et al., “Mortality Among Recent Purchasers of Handguns,” New England Journal of Medicine 341, no. 21, (1999): 1583-1589.
  14. Douglas Weil, ScD, and David Hemenway, PhD, “Loaded Guns in the Home: Analysis of a National Random Survey of Gun Owners,” JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 286, no. 22 (1992): 3035.
  15. David Hemenway, PhD, et al., “Firearm Training and Storage,” JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 273, no. 1 (1995): 48.
  16. David Hemenway, PhD, et al., “Firearm Training and Storage,” JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 273, no. 1 (1995): 48.
  17. Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, Guns in America: Results of a Comprehensive National Survey on Firearm Ownership and Use (Washington DC: Police Foundation, 1996): 22.
  18. David C. Grossman, MD, MPH, et al., “Firearm Safety Counseling in Primary Care Pediatrics: A Randomized, Controlled Trial,” Pediatrics 106 (July 2000): 22.
  19. See, for example: L. Potvin et al., “Mandatory Driver Training and Road Safety: the Quebec Experience,” American Journal of Public Health 78 (September 1988): 1206-1209; A.K. Lund, et al., “A Review of the Literature Evaluating the Defensive Driving Course,” Accident Analysis and Prevention 17 (December 1985): 449-460; L.S. Robertson, “Crash Involvement of Teenaged Drivers When Driver Education is Eliminated from High School,” American Journal of Public Health 70 (June 1980): 599-603; L.S. Robertson, et al., “Driver Education and Fatal Crash Involvement of Teenaged Drivers,” American Journal of Public Health 68 (October 1978): 959-965.
  20. Tim Naumetz, “Gun Registry Is Millions Over Budget: Government Admits Massive Cost Overruns; ‘This Turkey Cannot Be Made to Fly,'” Ottawa Citizen, 20 April 2000.
  21. See Concealed Carry: The Criminal’s Companion (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1995); Concealing the Risk: Real-World Effects of Lax Concealed Weapons Laws (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, 1996); License to Kill: Arrests Involving Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1998);  License to Kill, and Kidnap, and Rape, and Drive Drunk—An Update on Arrests of Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1999); License to Kill III: The Texas Concealed Handgun Law’s Legacy of Crime and Violence (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2000). 
  22. License to Kill III: The Texas Concealed Handgun Law’s Legacy of Crime and Violence (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2000). 
  23. See, for example, Clea Benson and Craig R. McCoy, “Philadelphia and Firearms: Why City Remains Under the Gun. Gun-Related Deaths are Down in Other Big Cities. Not Here. Here’s Why,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 11 January 1998. The article details how Pennsylvania concealed carry license holders used their licenses to circumvent the federal waiting period and engage in criminal gun trafficking.
  24. Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH, et al., “Prior Misdemeanor Convictions as a Risk Factor for Later Violent and Firearm-Related Criminal Activity Among Authorized Purchasers of Handguns,” JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 280, no. 24 (1998): 2083-2087.

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