Research SummaryThe criminal use of firearms presents a unique challenge to policymakers and is the subject of scientific study in fields such as criminology, public health, sociology, and law.
Keywords terrorism, firearms, sentencing, weapons, felonsthis research was supported in part by an appointment to the u.s. department of Homeland security research opportunity Program administered by the oak ridge Institute for science and education (orIse) through a cooperative agreement between the u.s. department of energy and the u.s. department of Homeland security. orIse is managed by oak ridge Associated universities (orAu) under the department of education (doe) contract de-Ac05-06or23100. All opinions expressed in this article are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect the policies and views of dHs, doe, or orAu/orIse. direct correspondence to richard legault, national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism (stArt) center, university of maryland, college Park, md 20742 (e-mail: rlegault@start.umd.edu); James Hendrickson, department of criminal Justice and criminology, university of maryland,