Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
, 2014 20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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Shots Across No Man\u27s Land: A Response to Handgun Control, Inc.\u27s, Richard Aborn [PDF]
, 1995 In response to Richard Aborn\u27s article The Battle Over the Brady Bill and the Future of Gun Control Advocacy, Johnson argues that Aborn\u27s bad gun formula trivializes the Second Amendment, ignores issues vital to the gun control debate, and ...
Johnson, Nicholas J.
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Leveraging Orientation for Weakly Supervised Object Detection with Application to Firearm Localization [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Automatic detection of firearms is important for enhancing the security and safety of people, however, it is a challenging task owing to the wide variations in shape, size, and appearance of firearms. Also, most of the generic object detectors process axis-aligned rectangular areas though, a thin and long rifle may actually cover only a small ...
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High-speed measurement of firearm primer blast waves [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 This article describes a method and results for direct high-speed measurements of firearm primer blast waves employing a high-speed pressure transducer located at the muzzle to record the blast pressure wave produced by primer ignition. Key findings are: 1) Most of the lead styphnate based primer models tested show 5.2-11.3% standard deviation in the ...
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Scaling properties of firearm homicides in Brazilian cities [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The recent quantitative approaches for studing several aspects of urban life and infrastructure have shown that scale properties allow to understand many features of urban infrastructure and of human activity in cities. In this work, an analysis based on the complexity of cities network is performed for data on Brazilian cities firearms homicides.
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Calculating effective gun policies [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Following recent shootings in the USA, a debate has erupted, one side favoring stricter gun control, the other promoting protection through more weapons. We provide a scientific foundation to inform this debate, based on mathematical, epidemiological models that quantify the dependence of firearm-related death rates of people on gun policies. We assume
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Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm examination. Firearm examination is a forensic tool used to help the court determine whether two bullets were fired from the same gun barrel.
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The socioeconomic dynamics of the shifta conflict in Kenya, c. 1963-8 [PDF]
, 2012 Using a set of oral testimonies, together with military, intelligence, and administrative reports from the 1960s, this article re-examines the shifta conflict in Kenya.
Whittaker, H
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Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives [PDF]
, 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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Temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality rates from tobacco and firearms in the United States. [PDF]
Prev Med, 2023 Palumbo SA +3 more
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