Evasion and public policy: British and US firearm regulation

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• An earlier version of this paper, which was prepared while I was an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Essex, was presented at a seminar at the University of Glasgow in May, 1997. I am grateful to seminar participants, the session discussant, Prof. G. Webb, Philip J. Cook, and anonymous referees, for helpful comments.
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