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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

Gary Kleck

Gary Kleck

Gary Kleck

Born: March 2, 1951 (age 73)

Bio: Gary Kleck is a criminologist and the David J. Bordua Professor of Criminology at Florida State University.

Known for:

Point Blank (1991)
Targeting guns (1997)
Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control (2001)
The Criminology of Guns and Violence (1995)

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