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Shall or May Carry: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Concealed-Carry on Crime

by Stephen Paolillo

Institution:	Middlebury
Department:	Student Scholarship
Degree:
Year:	2022
Keywords:	Applied economics; Causes and prevention of crime; Applied statistics; Gun control – Data processing; Firearms – Law and legislation – Data processing; Crime – Data processing; Concealed-carry; Gun laws; Crime; Economics; Empirical; Difference-in-differen
Posted:	3/25/2025
Record ID:	2253178
Full text PDF:	http://hdl.handle.net/10779/middlebury.21537939.v1

Abstract

In this study I attempt to examine the effect that different types of concealed-carry legislation; shall-issue, may-issue, ban and deregulation, have on the rates of different crimes; murder, rape, assault, larceny, burglary, robbery and motor vehicle theft. My findings suggest that less restrictive gun laws may decrease violent crime and increase property crime, but the addition of linear time trends into the regression complicate the results and thus no significant conclusions can be drawn.