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* This research was supported by grant R49-CCR-306268 from the US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.** Members of the Violence Research Group and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland at College Park. 1 See James D. Wright Et. Al., Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America 243-72 (1983); Gary Kleck & E. Britt Patterson, The Impact of Gun Control and Gun Ownership Levels on Violence Raies, 9 J. Quantitative Criminology 249 (1993). 2 See, eg, Franklin E. Zimring, Firearms, Violence, and Public Policy, 265 Sci. Am. 48 (1991).