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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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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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Firearms training and storage practices among US gun owners: a nationally representative study
Injury Prevention, 2019Objectives To describe firearm storage practices among US adults and examine the relationship between having received formal firearms training and firearm storage.
J. Berrigan +3 more
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Science, 2000
Several aspects of the arguments Susan B. Sorenson presents in her Policy Forum “Regulating firearms as a consumer product” ( Science 's Compass, 19 Nov., p. [1481][1]) warrant comment. To begin with, the number of motor vehicle deaths she cites is due to accidents, whereas the number of ...
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Several aspects of the arguments Susan B. Sorenson presents in her Policy Forum “Regulating firearms as a consumer product” ( Science 's Compass, 19 Nov., p. [1481][1]) warrant comment. To begin with, the number of motor vehicle deaths she cites is due to accidents, whereas the number of ...
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Firearm Design and Firearm Violence
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996To the Editor. —A product-oriented approach to firearm violence is fraught with pitfalls, as even Dr Wintemute admits, 1 and may indeed result in unintended, counterproductive effects. The banning by policymakers of a product today because of its lethality or perceived prevalence in crime may well lead to the substitution of even more lethal weapons ...
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FIREARM AVAILABILITY AND THE USE OF FIREARMS FOR SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2000In 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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2016
An overview of the basics of forensic firearms examination and firearms chemistry is presented. Firearms and ammunition nomenclature, design and manufacture are detailed in relation to the work of the firearms forensic scientist whose work at the scene, post-mortem examination and in the laboratory is explained.
Mark Mastaglio, Angela Shaw
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An overview of the basics of forensic firearms examination and firearms chemistry is presented. Firearms and ammunition nomenclature, design and manufacture are detailed in relation to the work of the firearms forensic scientist whose work at the scene, post-mortem examination and in the laboratory is explained.
Mark Mastaglio, Angela Shaw
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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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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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