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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm ...
Leigh, Andrew, Neill, Christine
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Predictors of Sustainable Investment Motivation: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 5001-5018, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the determinants influencing retail investors' capital allocation to sustainable financial products, focusing specifically on Germany—a pertinent case due to its strong commitment to sustainability, supportive regulatory environment and substantial market growth.
Sergey Sosnovskikh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article explores the relationship between lethality and the right to bear arms, and considers how that relationship might be shaped by the availability of non-lethal alternative weapons.
Blocher, Joseph, Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 363-403, August 2025.
Abstract Research SummaryUsing firearm transaction and crime gun recovery records from California (2010–2021), we employ machine learning to identify dealers who sold largest number and highest fraction of guns recovered in crimes within 1 year of sale.
Hannah S. Laqueur, Colette Smirniotis
wiley   +1 more source

Calling All the Statesmen: The (not) Mubarak Trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I read the decision that exonerated ex-Minister of Interior of Egypt and his assistants from the charge of giving orders to kill demonstrators textually.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation?

open access: yes
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 23, Issue 7, September 2025.
Jerrold L Belant   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ottoman Gunpowder Empire and the Composite Bow

open access: yes, 2010
The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century.
Lanan, Nathan
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Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Draws on campaigns for gun control and same-sex marriage in South Africa to offer a framework for effective advocacy. Discusses defining issues and goals, research, strategic partnerships, mobilizing, working with the media, lobbying, and other ...
Janet Shapiro, Marian Nell
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Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Rural crime and law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses the nature and extent of rural crime and suggested solutions to rural crime; providing the author’s opinion on mandatory sentencing, increased penalties, certainty of detection, and reduction of the profit motive.
Bone, Christopher J
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