20.500.12556/DKUM-95635 Guns do kill people novel global evidence on the cross-national relationship between gun ownership and (gun) homicide Despite recent advances, the existing macro-social, cross-national research on whether gun ownership exacerbates (gun) homicide remains unsettled. Studies report positive, negative, and null results. This is in part due to pervasive methodological issues like small sample sizes, inappropriate modelling and sparse controls for confounding, crude measures of gun ownership, and not differentiating between gun homicide and total homicide rates. This paper presents a novel estimation strategy performed on a new cross-national dataset covering more than 100 countries and spanning 2000–2019, which is by far the largest global sample to date. Using the validated proxy of gun ownership (percentage of gun suicides), both simple cross-sectional as well as Mundlak-corrected, correlated random-effects models – which are robust to time-invariant, country-specific heterogeneity – consistently show evidence of a statistically significant, positive, and sizable effect on gun homicide. This result survives a battery of robustness tests, different controls, and an alternative measure of gun ownership. However, I find no support for the existence of a significant relationship between gun ownership and the total homicide rate. gun ownership homicide omited-variable bias lastništvo strelnega orožja umor umor s strelnim orožjem pristranost izpuščenih spremenljivk true false true Elsevier Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-10-03 03:31:53 2026-03-04 10:59:18 2026-03-05 03:13:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-12 št. članka 102512 Letn. 101 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2025-09-08 2025-09-11 316.654:343.344 251507715 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102512 0047-2352 RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf RAZ_Rutar_Tibor_2025.pdf 1 9A1766549386FFD9256C587755A595DC ef7424853b9c5f0170dde9d5249cbe18aa10a0fef23347ba91fe42dddf393c80 23ba1fb1-17b1-11f1-aa76-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=204239 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102512 0 382a7f37-17b1-11f1-aa76-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=204241 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0