ABSTRACT
I , W R published Armed and Considered Dangerous: a Survey of Felons and Th eir Firearms (hereafter ACD), the most comprehensive survey and analysis then available (or since) of where, how and why criminals acquire, carry and use guns. A second edition, sporting a new preface but otherwise unchanged, was issued in 1994. It was an easy and comfortable conclusion in 1994 that “with a few exceptions, the themes and analyses of Armed and Considered Dangerous seem to have held up pretty well,” but what of the new research and evidence that has accumulated since? e purpose of the present essay1 is to review the literature pertaining to the criminal acquisition and use of fi rearms produced in the years since ACD was initially published, with an emphasis on the post-1994 literature.
