Carrying a Concealed Weapon
http://www.michigan.gov/msp/1,1607,7-123-1591_3503_4654---,00.html
A compilation of resources by the Michigan State Police.
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Closing Illegal Gun Markets: Extending Criminal Background Checks to All Gun Sales
http://www.csgv.org/docUploads/ubc%5Freport%2Epdf
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. May 2002. 14pp. Copyright request 2010.
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Closing Illegal Gun Markets: Licensing Access to Handguns
http://www.csgv.org/docUploads/licensing%5Freport%2Epdf
Education Fund to Stop Gun Violence. 2002. 24p. Copyright request #2011.
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Combating Gun Violence: An In-Depth Look at Richmond’s Project Exile
http://www.ndaa-apri.org/pdf/combating_gun_violence_web.pdf
Alexandria, VA: American Prosecutors Research Institute, 2001. 16pp.
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The Detroit Handgun Intervention Program: A Court-Based Program for Youthful Handgun Offenders (FS 000231)
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/fs000231.txt
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/fs000231.pdf
This Research in Progress Preview summarizes an NIJ-sponsored study designed to change attitudes and behavior toward carrying and using handguns among more than 6,000 offenders who had been arrested for carrying concealed weapons. As a condition of pretrial release, the Handgun Intervention Program (HIP) required that offenders attend a class in which they would learn the negative consequences of gun use and be challenged to take personal responsibility for reducing those consequences. Early results from the study showed that as a result of HIP, attitudes toward gun use improved significantly in the short term. Many participants, however, questioned whether their behavior would change because they felt the dangers of the street required them to carry a gun.
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Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-284es.html
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 284, October 22, 1997.
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Firearm Use Among Michigan's Youthful Offender Population
http://web.archive.org/web/20030708200546/
http://www.jrsainfo.org/programs/michigan.htm
Timothy S. Bynum, MSU Michigan Justice Statistics Center, March 2001. Still available thanks to the Internet Archives.
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Firearms and Crime Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm
Provides statistics and links to BJS reports.
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Firearms and Crimes of Violence
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/facov.htm
Features a press release summarizing selected findings on trends in firearm use in serious violent crime, based on FBI data on homicide, BJS data on victimization and inmate firearm use, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on firearm ownership by high school students. NCJ146844.
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Frontline: Hot Guns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/
Emmy Award winning program which aired on June 3, 1997, this is a "report on cheap handguns, their manufacturers, and the illicit handgun market."
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Gun Control
http://www.justicelearning.org/viewissue.asp?issueID=5
After the Columbine school massacre, many legislators called for renewed efforts to limit the sale of handguns, particularly to minors. Cities such as Chicago and New Orleans went so far as to bring lawsuits aimed at recouping the costs of gun violence from the gun industry. The lawsuits question whether gun manufacturers and dealers, like the tobacco industry, can be held accountable for the criminal use of their products. Does the Second Amendment prohibit state regulation and control of firearms? Source: Justice Learning Blog sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
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Gun Control: A Select Bibliography
http://www.criminology.utoronto.ca/library/gun.htm
A compilation of resources by the University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology Library. March 10, 2003.
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Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-in-Point
http://web.archive.org/web/20011101114812/
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/economic.html
An article by T. Markus Funk originally appearing in 85 J. of Crim. L. & Criminology 764-806 (1995).
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Gun Control (Issue in Depth) from The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/index-guns.html
"America Under the Gun," a special section of _The New York Times_, offers recent coverage of gun control issues with segments on lawsuits, politics, and schools, as well as a database that summarizes firearm ownership laws in every state.
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Gun Control Laws: What Gives Congress the Right?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa031900a.htm
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Gun Laws, Gun Control, and Gun Rights
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm
JURIST: The Legal Education Network presents this guide to Gun Laws, Gun Control & Gun Rights as a resource for individuals on all sides in the ongoing controversy over the legal status of guns in the United States.
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Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1078
This 74 pp. document addresses youth gun violence, describing the problem and reviewing risk factors. It then identifies a series of questions that can help analyze local problems. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and lessons learned from evaluative research and police practice. (COPS)
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Guncite: Gun Control and Second Amendment Issues
http://www.guncite.com/
Guncite is an online resource dedicated to disseminating information on gun control, related statistics and perspectives, second amendment analysis, breaking news, an extensive online "reading room", and many links to other gun control related sites.
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Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle? Tracing the Historical Origins of an Anglo-American Right
http://web.archive.org/web/20011101080736/
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/howard.html
An article by T. Markus Funk originally appearing in 39 Howard L.J. 411-436 (1995).
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John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
http://www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy/
The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, established in 1995 with funding from The Joyce Foundation of Chicago, is dedicated to preventing gun-related deaths and injuries. Located in The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the Center applies a science-based, public health approach to gun violence. The Center serves as an important national resource for policy makers, academic scholars, advocacy organizations, attorneys, the media, and the general public by providing accurate information on firearm injuries, gun policy, and related research.
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Kids and Guns: From Playgrounds to Battlegrounds
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/165925.pdf
An article by Stuart Greenbawn appearing in Juvenile Justice, Vol. III, No. 2, September 1997, pp.3-10. The lethal mixture of kids and guns has reached a crisis in the United States. Attorney General Janet Reno has observed that, "No corner of America is safe from increasing levels of criminal violence, including violence committed by and against juveniles."
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Kids, Guns, and the Commerce Clause: Is the Court Ready for Constitutional Government?
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-216es.html
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 216, October 10, 1997, Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
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Killing Machines: the Case for Banning Assault Weapons
http://www.csgv.org/docUploads/awb%5Freport%2Epdf
Eductional Fund to Stop Gun Violence. Sept. 2003. 13pp. Copyright request #2012.
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The Medical Costs of Gunshot Injuries in the United States
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/282/5/447
The costs of treating gunshot injuries imposes a financial burden on society. Estimates of such costs are relevant to evaluation of gun violence reduction programs and may help guide reimbrusement policies. An online article by Philip J. Cook, Bruce A. Lawrence, Jens Ludwig, and Ted R. Miller appearing in JAMA, Vol. 282, No. 5, August 4, 1999.
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Michigan Concealed Weapons and Firearms Laws
http://web.archive.org/web/20011122163334/
http://www.voyager.net/msp/reports/ccw/ccwtoc.htm
This information was compiled from selected Michigan Statutes, Attorney General Opinions, and the Code of Federal Regulations. Its purpose is to provide a condensed summary of proper procedures covering the purchasing and safety inspection (registration) of firearms, the function of concealed weapon licensing boards, and the requirements for an individual seeking a license to carry a concealed weapon. March 1, 1998. Provided by the Michigan State Police.
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Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence (MPPGV)
Gun Violence Policy Recommendations Report 1997
http://www.mppgv.org/
Choose publications, then 1997 GVR Report. Chapter titles include: Introdution; Safe Streets; Safe Schools; Safe Homes; Safe Workplaces; General Recommendations; and References.
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Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement
http://www.ssrn.com/
John R. Lott, Jr. and William M. Landes, Yale Law School and University of Chicago Law School. Full text of article available via the Social Sciences Research Network. Browse Electronic Library, Top Ten Downloads.
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National Center for Policy Analysis Gun Control Articles
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/cri/i_selfdefense.html#guncontrolmyths
A compilation of articles on background checks, Brady Gun Law, gun control myths, gun related deaths, handgun restrictions, liability and guns, rifle bans, police and guns, safety requirements, self defense, and right to carry laws.
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National Evaluation of the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/184482.pdf
COPS provided up to $1 million to 10 participating cities to fund interventions that employed community policing approaches to decrease the number of violent firearms crimes committed by youths, including gang- and drug-related offenses. Terence Dunworth, NIJ Research in Brief, November 2000.
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1998 National Gun Policy Survey of the National Opinion Research Center: Research Findings
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/new/guns98.pdf
Press release:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/99/990506.norc.guns.shtml
The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research has recently released a final report based on the research findings of a national survey on gun policies. The new 64-page study reports on topics such as the regulation of firearms, gun ownership and use, knowledge and attitudes toward guns, gun violence, and safety issues. The report includes thirteen statistical tables and concludes that the American public strongly supports "legislation to regulate firearms, make guns safer, and reduce the accessibility of firearms to criminals and children." Source: Scout Report for the Social Sciences, May 18, 1999.
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National Rifle Association
Institute for Legislative Action
http://www.nraila.org/
The Website for the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action monitors and posts updates to state and federal legislative developments, and provides information about Second Amendment rights and other pro-gun issues.
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New York -- Citing Public Nuisance -- Will Be First State to Sue Gun Makers
Source: Available from The New York Times, June 26, 2000 via Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (MSU only)
Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer plans to file suit against a raft of firearms makers and wholesalers, making New York the first state to take the industry to court, charging that it is partly responsible for the carnage from guns. Spitzer's suit marks a significant escalation of the legal campaign waged against the industry until now by 32 cities and counties around the country, including, most recently, New York City, which filed its own suit last week. The suit is to be filed under the state's public-nuisance law, rather than as a negligence claim. The suit follows more than a year of talks aimed at getting gun makers to adopt a code of conduct, changing the way they manufacture and distribute weapons in the hope of reducing the flow of them to criminals.

Presale Handgun Checks, 1996: A National Estimate
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/phc96.htm
Provides a national estimate of firearms purchasing applications, the number rejected, and the reasons for rejection. The project, conducted by the Regional Justice Information Service (REJIS) of St. Louis, Missouri, is an ongoing data collection effort focusing on the firearms check procedures in each State beginning January 1, 1996. The responses from 44 States summarized in this Bulletin are being used to develop statistics describing implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. Report is available in both pdf and ascii formats. 9/97. NCJ 165704
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Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/gun_violence/
"All of us should be able to feel safe and secure on our streets, in our schools, at work, and in our homes," Attorney General Janet Reno writes in her foreword to this OJJDP Report. "Yet too many Americans are threatened by violence every day." Gun-related violence makes a significant and deadly contribution to this danger. Every day, 93 people die of gunshot wounds in our Nation and 240 sustain gunshot injuries. This report is designed to provide law enforcement personnel; prosecutors; judges; policymakers, including State and local elected officials; leaders of community organizations; and other concerned citizens with practical information about a wide range of strategies to reduce gun violence. The 276-page Report describes 60 strategies and programs that jurisdictions can use to address gun violence.
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Reducing Gun Violence: Operation Ceasefire in Los Angeles
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/192378.pdf
LA tried to reduce gang violence using a version of Boston’s highly successful Operation Ceasefire program. They didn’t achieve the same results Boston achieved, but they did show that government agencies, community-based organizations, and researchers can successfully form partnerships to address violent crime.
The focus was gang violence in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. With input from a community working group, researchers designed an intervention using a “carrot and stick” approach (services intended to promote prevention coupled with intensive law enforcement). The plan was that when a violent “triggering event” occurred, police would initiate the intervention by pulling enforcement “levers” such as serving warrants and conducting saturation patrols. However, community pressure to immediately confront gang activity caused police to begin the intervention before services were widely available, deviating from the original plan to respond to “triggering events” with both sticks and carrots.
Results were mixed: Violent crime and gang crime fell more steeply where levers were pulled, but gun crime did not fall.
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Self-Defense and Gun Control
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/cri/i_selfdefense.html
A compilation of resources on gun control measures and self-defense by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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The Story of a Gun
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/199301/larson
After 60,000 deaths from firearms use over the past two years, America is in a gun crisis. Yet gun laws remain weak, gunmakers continue to promote killing power, and gun dealers accept no responsibility for the criminal use of what they sell. An article by Erik Larson appearing in the January 1993 Atlantic Monthly.
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Violence Policy Center Online Resource Center
http://www.vpc.org/index.htm
A national 501©(3) educational foundation that is at the forefront of organizations working to reduce firearms violence in America. The Center works to increase public understanding of firearms violence as an expanding public health crisis of which crime is merely the most recognized aspect. Contrary to popular perception, most gun death and injury in America results not from criminal attack, but from suicides, non-felony related homicides, and unintentional injuries. The reality is that America's gun toll is the direct result of the widespread marketing and distribution of an inherently dangerous consumer product of which specific categories--such as handguns and assault weapons--are particularly hazardous. Unlike the manufacturers of all other consumer products--from toasters to teddy bears--the firearms industry is exempt from federal health and safety regulation. Through its research, public education, and policy development the Violence Policy Center works to illustrate the need to hold the firearms industry and its products to the same health and safety standards we hold all other consumer products. At the same time, the Center works to engage individuals and organizations in the broad-based coalition necessary to reduce gun death and injury in America.
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Who Dies: A Look At Firearms Death and Injury in the United States
http://www.vpc.org/studies/whointro.htm
The reality of firearms violence is that it stems not from "guns in the wrong hands," but from the virtually unregulated distribution of an inherently dangerous consumer product of which specific categories-such as handguns and assault weapons-have very limited utility and inflict high costs on society in the form of premature death and debilitating injury. A report published twice yearly by the Violence Policy Center.
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Will Banning Assault Weapons Reduce Crime?
http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba102.html
National Center for Policy Analysis Brief Analysis No. 102, February 7, 1994.
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