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Firearms and Suicide

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001
Abstract: The evidence linking firearms in the home to risk for suicide is reviewed. These data come from epidemiological, case‐control, quasiexperimental, and prospective studies. The convergent finding from this wide range of studies is that there is a strong relationship between firearms in the home and risk for suicide, most firmly established in ...
David A Brent
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Improvised firearms versus regular firearms

Forensic Science International, 1984
Abstract In this paper, the ballistics of improvised firearms have been studied in comparison to those of regular firearms from the forensic point of view.
J K, Modi, C, Nigam, K, Kumar
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Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2001
Between 1979 and 1997, almost 30,000 Americans died from unintentional firearm injuries, half of whom were under 25 years of age and 4,600 of whom were less than 15 years old.To explore the association between state firearm levels and rates of unintentional firearm deaths by age group, accounting for several potential confounders.The study used a proxy
M, Miller, D, Azrael, D, Hemenway
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Firearm Laws and Firearm Homicides

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017
Firearm homicide is a leading cause of injury death in the United States, and there is considerable debate over the effectiveness of firearm policies. An analysis of the effectiveness of firearm laws on firearm homicide is important to understand optimal policies to decrease firearm homicide in the United States.To evaluate the association between ...
Lois K, Lee, Eric W, Fleegler, Caitlin, Farrell, Elorm, Avakame, Saranya, Srinivasan, David, Hemenway, Michael C, Monuteaux   +6 more
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Restrictive Firearm Laws and Firearm-Related Suicide

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2022
BACKGROUND: There were 23,854 suicides by firearms in 2017 in the US, accounting for 60% of all gun deaths. Studying firearm-related mortalities is vital for reducing preventable gun deaths. This study aims to determine the association between state-level presence of restrictive firearm laws and suicide rates with firearms.
Bradley, Kawano, Suresh, Agarwal, Vijay, Krishnamoorthy, Karthik, Raghunathan, Joseph S, Fernandez-Moure, Krista L, Haines   +5 more
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Firearm fatalities

Forensic Science International, 1992
One hundred and twenty eight cases of shooting fatalities were investigated during an 11-year period. Of these 57% were homicidal shootings with 34% suicidal in nature. Only two suicidal fatalities were female. Analysis of the sites of entrance wounds confirmed the 'sites of election' in suicidal shootings, whilst homicidal wounds showed a much wider ...
D, Rouse, L, Dunn
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FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND THE USE OF FIREARMS FOR SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2000
In a sample of 36 nations circa 1993, a measure of firearm availability based on the percentages of suicides and homicides using firearms gave better evidence for an association between firearm availability and their use for suicide and homicide than did the accidental firearm mortality rate.
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Firearms in the Home

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1987
Sir .—Patterson and Smith 1 queried 200 families with children about the presence of guns at home. Fifty-seven of the 150 respondents had a gun at home. Of these 57 families, 10% kept the gun loaded, not locked up, and in reach of the children. In none of the families had a child been hurt by guns.
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