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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
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Lisa Hepburn
bAdjunct research associate at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
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David Hemenway
cProfessor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center
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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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