Concealed Handgun Licensing and Crime in Four States

Table 3

Parameters for lagged county crime rates and logged federal firearms license rate (FFL) in models estimating county CHL rate.

Modeling CHL rates	Crime coefficient (SE)	Log FFL coefficient (SE)
Murder	0.034 (0.026)	0.196 (0.043)
Rape	−0.005 (0.013)	0.194 (0.043)
Robbery	0.006 (0.014)	0.196 (0.043)
Assault	−0.002 (0.0008)	0.192 (0.043)
Burglary	0.002 (0.004)	0.190 (0.044)
Larceny	−0.003 (0.002)	0.194 (0.043)
Motor vehicle theft	−0.001 (0.0006)	0.194 (0.043)
Total crimes	−0.001 (0.0004)	0.194 (0.043)

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