Abstract
It is an enlightening truism of gun policy that, in the United States, the vast majority of guns used in crime were originally sold by federally licensed firearm dealers. The primary exceptions are the modest number of guns stolen from manufactures or dealers or illegally imported from abroad. This does not mean that most gun dealers fout the law or knowingly sell guns to criminals. But it does suggest that one potentially fruitful approach to make it harder for firearms to flow from the legal to the illegal market is through enhanced regulation and oversight of firearm dealers.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Reducing Gun Violence in America |
| Publisher | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Pages | 133-140 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Volume | 9781421411118 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781421411118 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1421411105, 9781421411101 |
| State | Published - 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences