Do Firearm Markets Comply with Firearm Restrictions? How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Firearm Sales

• Tác giả: Meenakshi Balakrishna, Kenneth C Wilbur
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 327.1743 Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Báo, Tạp chí
• ID: 168184

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Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2102.02884How well do firearm markets comply with firearm restrictions? The Massachusetts Attorney General issued an Enforcement Notice in 2016 to announce a new interpretation of the key phrase "copies and duplicates" in the state's assault weapons ban. The Enforcement Notice increased assault rifle sales by 1,349 (+560%) within five days, followed by a reduction of 211 (-58%) over the next three weeks. Assault rifle sales were 64-66% lower in 2017 than in comparable earlier periods, suggesting that the Enforcement Notice reduced assault weapon sales but also that many banned weapons continued to be sold.