@article{ref1,
title="Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths",
journal="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America",
year="2017",
author="Luca, Michael and Malhotra, Deepak and Poliquin, Christopher",
volume="114",
number="46",
pages="12162-12165",
abstract="Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a &quot;cooling off&quot; period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, exploiting all changes to state-level policies in the Unites States since 1970. We find that waiting periods reduce gun homicides by roughly 17%. We provide further support for the causal impact of waiting periods on homicides by exploiting a natural experiment resulting from a federal law in 1994 that imposed a temporary waiting period on a subset of states.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0027-8424",
doi="10.1073/pnas.1619896114",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619896114"
}