Title: Effects of Limiting Handgun Purchases on Interstate Transfer of Firearms

Publication Date: June 12, 1996

What does it say?

This study used crime gun trace data on 14,606 firearms purchased prior to (September 1989 through June 1993) and after (July 1993 through March 1995) enactment of a Virginia law limiting handgun purchases to 1 per month. 

For guns recovered in crime in the Northeast and traced, the odds that a gun was purchased in Virginia relative to gun dealers elsewhere in the Southeast were reduced 66 percent after the law took effect (p. 1760).

How can I use it?

Use this study to advocate for limits on bulk sales of handguns.

Citation

Weil, Doug and Rebecca Knox, “Effects of Limiting Handgun Purchases on Interstate Transfer of Firearms,” Journal of the American Medical Association 275 (1996):1759-1761

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