Footnotes:

1. Tom Loewy, "Local Group Lobbies for Gun Rights," Register-Mail, Mar. 12, 2010

2. Jeff Dege, "Progress in Right-to-Carry," Gun Nuttery website, May 18, 2008

3. Richard Getchall, "Carrying Concealed Weapons in Self-Defense: Florida Adopts Uniform Regulations for the Issuance of Concealed Weapons Permits," Florida State University Law Review, 1987

4. "Right-to-Carry 2009," National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action website, May 7, 2009

5. "Going for the Guns," msnbc.com, Mar. 18, 2010

6. John Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime, 1998

7. National Research Council, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, 2004

8. John Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-control Laws, 2000

9. Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, 1997

10. "Common Arguments," Concealed Campus website (accessed Mar. 25, 2010)

11. Charles Branas, et al., "Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault," American Journal of Public Health, Nov. 2009

12. David McDowell, et al., "Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Fall 1995

13. David Hemenway, PhD, Deborah Azrael, PhD, and Mathew Miller, MD, "Gun Use in the United States: Results from Two National Surveys," Injury Prevention, Dec. 2000

14. "Concealed Carry Killers," Violence Policy Center website, Mar. 24, 2010

15. "Crime in the United States, 2007," FBI website, Sep. 2008

16. Matthew Miller, PhD, Deborah Azrael, PhD, and David Hemenway, PhD, "Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths," Accident Analysis and Prevention, July 2001

17. James Wright and Peter Rossi, "The Armed Criminal in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons," National Institute of Justice Research Brief, July 1985

18. John Lott, Jr., "Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fall Short in Criticizing NRA's Anti-Obama Ads," FoxNews.com, Sep. 24, 2008

19. "Weaker Gun Laws, Lack of Leadership Earn President Obama a Failing Grade," Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence website, Jan. 19, 2010

20. Jeffrey Snyder, "Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun," Cato Institute website, Oct. 22, 1997

21. Ian Ayres, PhD, and John Donohue, PhD, "Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis," Stanford Law Review, Apr. 2003

22. David Welna, "Senate Rejects Concealed Weapons Measure," NPR.com, July 22, 2009

23. Lindsey Reiser, "Arizona May Allow Faculty to Carry Guns on Campus," ABCNews.com, Feb. 5, 2010

24. Wayne Laugesen, "Sheriff Says He'll Undermine Gun Ban," The Gazette, Feb. 23, 2010

25. Bruce Rushton, "Gun-rights Activists Descend on Capitol," State Journal-Register, Mar. 11, 2010

26. "Concealed Carry Permits Hit Ohio High," Mansfield News Journal, Mar. 1, 2010

27. Mike Wereschagin and David Brown, "Candidates' Gun Control Positions May Figure in PA. Vote," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Apr. 2, 2008

28. Patrik Jonsson, "UT Shooting Comes Just As Austin Campus Debates Concealed Weapons Law," Christian Science Monitor, Sep. 28, 2010

29. R.G. Ratcliffe and Gary Scharrer, "Lockdown in Austin," Houston Chronicle, Sep. 28, 2010

30. William E. Sturdevant, PE, "An Analysis of the Arrest Rate of Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders As Compared to the Arrest Rate of The Entire Texas Population,"  (299 KB) www.txchia.org, Sep. 1, 2000

31. Antonin Scalia, JD, Majority Opinion, District of Columbia v. Heller,  (267 KB) www.law.cornell.edu, June 26, 2008

32. Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun,"  (903 KB) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Autumn 1995

33. Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III, "More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006,"  (149 KB) Journal of the American Institute for Economic Research, May 2009

34. Violence Policy Center, "License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime,"  (149 KB) www.vpc.org, June 2002

35. Matthew Miller, MD, and David Hemenway, PhD, "Guns and Suicide in the United States,"  (205 KB) New England Journal of Medicine, Sep. 4, 2008

36. Clayton E. Cramer, Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform,  (42 KB) 1999

37. Carol Skalnik Leff and Mark H. Leff, "The Politics of Ineffectiveness: Federal Firearms Legislation, 1919-38," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1981

38. David M. Goldman, JD, "The National Firearms Act,"  (142 KB) www.guntrustlawyer.com, May 4, 2008

39. Richard S. Grossman and Stephen A. Lee, "May Issue vs. Shall Issue: Explaining the Pattern of Concealed Carry Handgun Laws, 1960-2001,"  (144 KB) Contemporary Economic Policy, Apr. 2008

40. Florenz Plassmann and T. Nicolaus Tideman, "Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crimes? Only a Count Analysis Can Say,"  (120 KB) Journal of Law and Economics, Oct. 2001

41. Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. Marvell, "The Debate on Shall-Issue Laws,"  (148 KB) econjournalwatch.com, Sep. 2008

42. Samuel Alito, JD, Majority Opinion, McDonald v. Chicago,  (1.1 MB) www.supremecourt.gov, June 28, 2010

43. Charlie Mathews, "Wisconsin Concealed-carry Law May Prompt New Ordinances,” www.htrnews.com, July 8, 2011

44. Ray Long, "With Deadline Approaching, Illinois Lawmakers Struggle to See Eye to Eye on Concealed Carry," articles.chicagotribune.com, Apr. 10, 2013


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