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The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey
Deborah Azrael, Lisa Hepburn, David Hemenway, Matthew Miller
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences October 2017, 3 (5) 38-57; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.02
Deborah Azrael
aResearch scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of research for the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Lisa Hepburn
bAdjunct research associate at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
David Hemenway
cProfessor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Matthew Miller
dProfessor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
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Deborah Azrael, Lisa Hepburn, David Hemenway, Matthew Miller
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Oct 2017, 3 (5) 38-57; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.5.02
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