Abstract
Over the past several years, there has been a significant increase in the number of states allowing concealed weapons carry without a permit (constitutional carry), and an increase in the number of states that have enacted stand-your-ground laws. The purpose of the present study is to determine if the enactment of constitutional carry and stand-your-ground laws have had any statistically significant effects on incidents of defensive firearm use. Using a fixed effects, negative binomial model, it was found that both constitutional carry and stand-your-ground laws resulted in an increase in the number of casualties of defensive firearm uses (injured and killed), but they had no effect on the overall number of defensive firearm uses.
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Gius, Mark P.
(2025)
"CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY, STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS AND DEFENSIVE FIREARM USE,"
Pennsylvania Economic Review: Vol. 32:
No.
1, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.65193/3067-8080.1015