Increased Long Gun Availability has No Effect or Reduces Violent Crime

By Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A rigorous study of crime and deer hunting spanning 20 years and millions of people, found long gun use in rural areas either slightly reduced violent crime or had no impact.

Aside from the contributions above, this paper is meaningful for policy-makers as it provides evidence that immense changes in rural recreational long gun use have no economically significant impacts on violent crime.

This is an enormous, well-done study that is being ignored by urban media. The study was published on 1 December 2018.

The author, Paul Niekamp deserves kudos for tackling a difficult academic problem with integrity. Mr. Niekamp works hard at identifying potential problems and dealing with them in his study. His identifying of deer season long gun use as a natural experiment to measure the effect of long gun availability on crime rates was a brilliant insight.

The finding that alcohol and drug offenses by juvenile males dropped by significant amounts during the increased long gun usage destroys the image of rural gun owners as drunken, irresponsible louts.

Second Amendment supporters have long touted the positive effects of firearms training and hunting on the character development of …Read the Rest

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