Fact Check: Guns in America

December 25, 2012 9:00am by Barry Ritholtz

Merry Christmas.

Sources

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Christpher S. Koper. “Crime Gun Risk Factors: Buyer, Seller, Firearm, and Transaction Characteristics Associated with Gun Trafficking and Criminal Gun Use.” Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania. 2007.

“Point, Click, Fire: An Investigation Of Illegal Online Gun Sales.” City of New York. December 2011.

Caroline Wolf Harlow. “Firearm Use by Offenders.” U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. November 2001.

Sam Stein. “Gun Owners Surveyed By Frank Luntz Express Broad Support For Gun Control Policies.” The Huffington Post. Jul. 24, 2012.

U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 924(c)

U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 2316

Ezra Klein. “Twelve Facts About Guns and Mass Shootings in the United States.” The Washington Post. Dec. 14, 2012.

Erin G. Richardson and David Hemenway. “Homicide, Suicide, and Unintentional Firearm Fatality: Comparing the United States With Other High Income Countries, 2003.” The Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care. January 2011.

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