The Legal and Empirical Case for Firearm Purchaser Licensing

Hannah Abelow¹, Cassandra Crifasi¹, Daniel Webster¹

• ¹Hannah Abelow is a J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. Prior to law school, she served as a policy advisor to Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo and as chief of staff of the Rhode Island Department of Administration. She received a B.A. from Brown University. Cassandra Crifasi, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Deputy Director of the Center for Gun Policy. Her research focuses broadly on public safety including injury epidemiology and prevention, gun violence and policy, attitudes and behaviors of gun owners, and underground gun markets. Daniel Webster, Sc.D., M.P.H., is Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he directs the Center for Gun Policy and Research and serves as co-lead of the Violence Prevention Workgroup of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. Dr. Webster has published widely on gun policy, street outreach and violence interruption programs, youth violence, intimate partner violence, suicide, and substance abuse.