GVPedia
Gun Violence Research
GVPedia arms policymakers, advocates, and the public with facts and data to create evidence-based policy to reduce gun violence.
Welcome to GVPedia, a project created to provide ready access to academic research and high quality data on gun violence. GVPedia is currently comprised of two main features:
The Study Database
The Database is a collection of more than 1,000 academic studies analyzing a wide range of gun violence subjects that can be searched by topic, author, journal, and year of publication. Each study is accompanied by an abstract, and hundreds of studies have the full text available for you to read.
GVP University
GVP University is a collection of white papers and fact sheets that will eventually cover every major topic in gun violence. Intended to provide summaries of the issues and succinct points, they serve as a jumping-off point to explore each topic in greater detail with our Study Database.
Recent Fact Sheets
Debunking John Lott’s latest dishonest attacks on the FBI active shooter reports
Debunking John Lott’s latest dishonest attacks on the FBI active shooter reports Summary On October 3rd, 2022, pro-gun commentator John Lott released a study falsely alleging massive errors in the FBI’s active shooter research. He claimed that the FBI missed dozens of...
GVPedia’s Letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary
GVPedia’s Letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary December 15, 2022 Dear Chair Nadler, Vice Chair Dean, Ranking Member Jordan, and all esteemed members of the House Committee on the Judiciary, I am writing to you today in response to the December 15, 2022 House...
Fact Sheet: Permitless Carry
Permitless Carry Factsheet "States that pass a Permitless Carry law suffer from a 22% increase in gun homicide for the three years after the law’s passage, more than doubling the 10% increase for the country overall." Permitless Carry (sometimes referred to as...
Recent Studies
“What does it depend on?”: Perceptions of safety related to firearms in homes and neighborhoods
Background Though research has established that firearms in the home increase risk for injury and death, a substantial number of Americans, especially gun owners, believe that guns make their homes safer. More than half of gun owners in a nationally-representative...
Statisticians engage in gun violence research
Government reports document more than 14,000 homicides and more than 195,000 aggravated assaults with firearms in 2017. In addition, there were 346 mass shootings, with 4 or more victims, including over 2000 people shot. These statistics do not include suicides...
Emergent mental health visits to a pediatric hospital: impact on firearm storage practices
Objective The aims of this study were to describe firearm storage practices in homes of patients evaluated for mental health (MH) complaints at a tertiary care children's hospital and to describe storage practice changes after treatment. Methods We surveyed...