Harold Pollack, one of the study Authors A paper on where and how criminals obtain guns has been published in "Preventive Medicine" a rather peculiar place to publish a paper on the criminology of gun use. Other than the apparent desire to medicalize crime that involves guns, the paper is reasonably well done, with some good information that reinforces much of what we already knew. A minor complaint is that the authors seem nearly as ignorant about guns as the criminals that they interview. They use the terms "assault weapon" and "machine pistol" without any definition, and little knowledge. ...