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Self-supervised visual learning for analyzing firearms trafficking activities on the Web [PDF]
, 2023 Automated visual firearms classification from RGB images is an important real-world task with applications in public space security, intelligence gathering and law enforcement investigations. When applied to images massively crawled from the World Wide Web (including social media and dark Web sites), it can serve as an important component of systems ...
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Views on Firearm Safety Among Caregivers of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias
JAMA Network Open, 2020 This survey study of caregivers of people with Alzheimer disease and related dementias assesses caregiver views on firearm safety risks, experiences with health care professional–delivered counseling, and preferred sources of information about firearm ...
M. Betz +8 more
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American Journal of Public Health, 2021 Objectives. To examine whether lethal means counseling and provision of cable locks prompt safe firearm storage relative to control among firearm-owning members of the Mississippi National Guard. Methods. This randomized controlled trial utilized a 2 × 2 factorial design (lethal means counseling vs control, provision of cable locks vs no cable locks).
Anestis, Michael D. +3 more
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MASCULINITY IDEOLOGY AS A MODERATOR ON THE EFFECTS OF LETHAL MEANS COUNSELING AND DISTRIBUTION OF CABLE LOCKS ON FIREARM STORAGE PRACTICES AMONG NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL [PDF]
, 2022 Safer firearm storage practices, which may reduce suicide risk, can be promoted by lethal means counseling (LMC). A recent trial found that providing a single LMC session or distributing cable locks can lead to sustained changes in firearm storage ...
Daruwala, Samantha E.
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Detection and Localization of Firearm Carriers in Complex Scenes for Improved Safety Measures [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Detecting firearms and accurately localizing individuals carrying them in images or videos is of paramount importance in security, surveillance, and content customization. However, this task presents significant challenges in complex environments due to clutter and the diverse shapes of firearms.
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Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions [PDF]
, 2017 In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm examination.
Carriquiry, Alicia +3 more
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Firearms Law and Fatal Police Shootings: A Panel Data Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Among industrialized countries, U.S. holds two somehow inglorious records: the highest rate of fatal police shootings and the highest rate of deaths related to firearms. The latter has been associated with strong diffusion of firearms ownership largely due to loose legislation in several member states.
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Do Firearm Markets Comply with Firearm Restrictions? How the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Enforcement Notice Changed Firearm Sales [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 How well do firearm markets comply with firearm restrictions? The Massachusetts Attorney General issued an Enforcement Notice in 2016 to announce a new interpretation of the key phrase "copies and duplicates" in the state's assault weapons ban. The Enforcement Notice increased assault rifle sales by 1,349 (+560%) within five days, followed by a ...
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Behavioral sciences & the law, 2019 A recommended component of suicide prevention is encouraging at-risk individuals to voluntarily and temporarily reduce access to firearms and other lethal methods.
R. Pallin +8 more
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A Re-analysis of Repeatability and Reproducibility in the Ames-USDOE-FBI Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Forensic firearms identification, the determination by a trained firearms examiner as to whether or not bullets or cartridges came from a common weapon, has long been a mainstay in the criminal courts. Reliability of forensic firearms identification has been challenged in the general scientific community, and, in response, several studies have been ...
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