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The Initial Impact of Maryland’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 on the Supply of Crime Handguns in Baltimore

Cassandra K. Crifasi, Shani A.L. Buggs, Seema Choksy, Daniel W. Webster
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2017, 3 (5) 128-140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.06
Cassandra K. Crifasi
aAssistant professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a core faculty member in the Center for Gun Policy and Research
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Shani A.L. Buggs
bDoctoral candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Seema Choksy
cSenior research program coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Daniel W. Webster
dProfessor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research
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