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Injury Prevention, 2020
Background Research on gun owners’ risk-related beliefs has focused on how gun owners answer discrete questions about firearm risk. The current study is the first to use latent class analysis (LCA) to: (A) identify groups of gun owners who share patterns
C. Salhi, D. Azrael, Matthew Miller
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Background Research on gun owners’ risk-related beliefs has focused on how gun owners answer discrete questions about firearm risk. The current study is the first to use latent class analysis (LCA) to: (A) identify groups of gun owners who share patterns
C. Salhi, D. Azrael, Matthew Miller
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Improvised firearms versus regular firearms
Forensic Science International, 1984Abstract In this paper, the ballistics of improvised firearms have been studied in comparison to those of regular firearms from the forensic point of view.
K. Kumar, C. Nigam, J.K. Modi
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour, 2020
OBJECTIVE Firearm means safety strategies, such as safe storage, are effective in reducing suicide rates but are not widely implemented in the United States.
Sarah E. Butterworth +2 more
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OBJECTIVE Firearm means safety strategies, such as safe storage, are effective in reducing suicide rates but are not widely implemented in the United States.
Sarah E. Butterworth +2 more
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Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2001Between 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
Margaret Miller +2 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020
Background: Several U.S. medical organizations urge clinicians to counsel patients about firearm risk (1). How often these conversations occur and what topics are covered are unknown.
A. Conner, D. Azrael, Matthew Miller
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Background: Several U.S. medical organizations urge clinicians to counsel patients about firearm risk (1). How often these conversations occur and what topics are covered are unknown.
A. Conner, D. Azrael, Matthew Miller
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Contextualizing Firearms in Mass Shooting Incidents: A Study of Guns, Regulations, and Outcomes
Justice quarterly, 2020The current study provides a quantitative examination of 634 firearms used in 348 mass shootings (1966–2018) through a unique firearm-level database. Specifically, this work identifies the relationship between the types of firearms, methods of obtainment,
E. Greene-Colozzi, Jason R. Silva
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Restrictive Firearm Laws and Firearm-Related Suicide
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2022BACKGROUND: 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 +5 more
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Firearm Laws and Firearm Homicides
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017Firearm 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 ...
Michael C. Monuteaux +9 more
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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