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Traders, guns, and money: The effects of mass shootings on stock prices of firearm manufacturers in the U.S. [PDF]

PLOS ONE, 2015
We investigate how mass shootings influence the stock price of firearms manufacturers. While it is well known that mass shootings lead to increased firearms sales, the response from financial markets is unclear. On one hand, given the observed short-term increase in demand, firearm stock prices may rise due to the unexpected financial windfall for the ...
Anandasivam Gopal, Brad N. Greenwood
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The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. civilian gun stock has grown from approximately 192 million (65 million handguns) to approximately 265 million (113 million handguns). In 2015, gun owners owned more weapons and were more likely to own both handguns and long guns than in 1994.
David Hemenway, Deborah R. Azrael, Matthew J. Miller, Lisa Hepburn   +3 more
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Association Between Firearm Purchasing in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Stress, August 2021 [PDF]

AJPM Focus
Introduction: Firearm sales and firearm-related injuries and deaths increased during the pandemic. Little is known about motivations for firearm purchasing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the mental health status of first-time purchasers.
Amira A. Roess, PhD, Laura F. Henderson, MPH, Leah M. Adams, PhD, Keith D. Renshaw, PhD   +3 more
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Modeling the U.S. Firearms Market

International Social Science Journal, 2023
AbstractWe estimate the first econometric model of the national civilian firearms market in the United States (1946–2016), where per capita firearms‐related harm is exceptionally high. Solving simultaneous equation models instrumented by natural disasters and steel prices, and employing unique firearms prices and quantities data, we find this market ...
Topher L. McDougal, Daniel Montolio, Jurgen Brauer   +2 more
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The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey [PDF]

Injury Prevention, 2007
Objectives:To examine the size and composition of the privately held firearm stock in the US; and to describe demographic patterns of firearm ownership and motivations for ownership.Design, setting and participants:A nationally representative household telephone survey of 2770 adults aged ⩾18 years living in the US, conducted in the spring of 2004.Main
Deborah R. Azrael, David Hemenway, Lisa Hepburn, Margaret Miller   +3 more
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“Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy”: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control [PDF]

, 1996
A relatively new way for utilizing the thermal performance of heat pipes is to use nanofluids as working fluids in the heat pipes. Heat pipes are effective heat transfer devices in which the nanofluid operates in the two phases, evaporation and ...
Cook, Philip J., Leitzel, James A.
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Social stigma and executive compensation [PDF]

, 2018
We document that executives working at firms perceived negatively in light of social norms, such as tobacco, gambling and alcohol, earn a significant compensation premium. The premium compensates for personal costs executives bear due to their employer’s
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Self-supervised visual learning for analyzing firearms trafficking activities on the Web [PDF]

, 2023
Automated visual firearms classification from RGB images is an important real-world task with applications in public space security, intelligence gathering and law enforcement investigations. When applied to images massively crawled from the World Wide Web (including social media and dark Web sites), it can serve as an important component of systems ...
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The Largest Stock of Guns in Canada

Ontario History, 2022
Dans cet article, nous examinerons l’entreprise du détaillant torontois Charles Stark, qui, à la fin du XIXème siècle, était le vendeur prépondérant d’armes au Canada. Stark avait profité de l’intérêt des civils pour les armes à feu tout en encourageant cet intérêt.
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Detection and Localization of Firearm Carriers in Complex Scenes for Improved Safety Measures [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Detecting firearms and accurately localizing individuals carrying them in images or videos is of paramount importance in security, surveillance, and content customization. However, this task presents significant challenges in complex environments due to clutter and the diverse shapes of firearms.
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