TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths
JO  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A1  - Luca, Michael
A1  - Malhotra, Deepak
A1  - Poliquin, Christopher
SP  - 12162
EP  - 12165
VL  - 114
IS  - 46
N2  - 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 "cooling off" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0027-8424
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619896114
ID  - ref1
ER  -