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Firearm violence and the effects of gun control legislation

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We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Joseph Orban, Henry Moy, and Benjamin Zajac in providing the computer programs of the C statistic for the intervention analysis, and Carolyn Block, Louise Miller, and JoEllyn Reader in providing the I-UCR crime data.

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Jung, R.S., Jason, L.A. Firearm violence and the effects of gun control legislation. Am J Commun Psychol 16, 515–524 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922768

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