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Firearm Storage and Firearm Suicide

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceSuicide-prevention interventions often recommend removing firearms from the homes of individuals at elevated risk of suicide or, short of removal, locking and unloading all household firearms. The recommendation to remove firearms is based on strong and consistent evidence.
Miller, Matthew, Wertz, Joeseph, Swanson, Sonja A., Simonetti, Joseph A., Zhang, Yifan, Azrael, Deborah R.   +5 more
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Firearm Homicide and Firearm Suicide: Opposite but Equal [PDF]

Public Health Reports®, 2004
Objective. Homicide and suicide are intentional acts of violence that disproportionately involve firearms. Much more effort has been devoted to the ecological study of homicide; methods that have been developed to better understand and subsequently prevent homicide may be applicable to suicide.
Charles C, Branas, Therese S, Richmond, C William, Schwab   +2 more
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The dangers of non-powder firearms

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2019
Non-powder weapons have become a persistent threat in today’s society. They are found outside of competitive sports at an increasing rate, being misused among young individuals, and have emerged in Canadian criminal activity.
Brandi A. Chrismas, Jack Powles
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Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceCausal associations between household firearm ownership rates (HFRs) and firearm mortality rates are not well understood.ObjectiveTo assess the population-level temporal sequencing of firearm death rates and HFRs.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study used autoregressive cross-lagged models to analyze HFRs, firearm suicide rates ...
Morral, Andrew R., Agniel, Denis, Smart, Rosanna, Schell, Terry L.   +3 more
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Firearms and ballistics. [PDF]

, 2016
Chapter 7 of the book entitled 'Practical Veterinary Forensics' aims to introduce forensic veterinarians to the scientific concepts underpinning the field of firearms and ballistics. This introduction will enable practitioners to understand wound formation depending on the firearm and ammunition used.
BOLTON-KING, Rachel, Schulze, Johan
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Association between firearms and mortality in Brazil, 1990 to 2017: a global burden of disease Brazil study

Population Health Metrics, 2020
Background Brazil leads the world in number of firearm deaths and ranks sixth by country in rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people. This study aims to analyze trends in and burden of mortality by firearms, according to age and sex, for Brazil, and the
Deborah Carvalho Malta, Adauto Martins Soares Filho, Isabella Vitral Pinto, Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Cheila Marina Lima, Ísis Eloah Machado, Renato Azeredo Teixeira, Otaliba Libânio Morais Neto, Roberto Marini Ladeira, Edgar Merchan-Hamann, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Cíntia Honório Vasconcelos, Carlos Cezar Flores Vidotti, Ewerton Cousin, Scott Glenn, Catherine Bisignano, Adrienne Chew, Antonio Luiz Ribeiro, Mohsen Naghavi   +18 more
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, violence, and killing: Revisiting femicide, and the overlooked realities of male victimization

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Sekaren Shantha‐Kumari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The emergence of 3D-printed firearms: An analysis of media and law enforcement reports

Forensic Science International: Synergy
3D-printed firearms, an emerging category of privately made firearms (PMF) produced beyond government control, have become increasingly prevalent due to technological advancements.
Stefan Schaufelbühl, Nicolas Florquin, Denis Werner, Olivier Delémont   +3 more
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