Study objective In the late 1960s, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms implemented the “factoring criteria,” a set of minimum size and safety standards required for any handgun imported into the United States. These standards, however, were not...
Objective To learn how, when, where, and why juvenile offenders acquire guns. Design Following acquisition of informed consent, we conducted semistructured interviews between June and November 1995 with a convenience sample of 63 juvenile offenders aged 13 through 18...
Objectives To determine how boys behave when they find a handgun in a presumably safe environment and to compare parental expectations of their child’s interest in real guns with this observed behavior. Methods A convenience sample of 8- to 12-year-old...
Injuries due to firearms are a major health problem in the United States. Although several studies have documented the impact of firearm-related deaths, little is known about the epidemiologic characteristics of nonfatal gunshot wounds. Hospital records have been used...
Context Homicide is a leading cause of death in Colombia, with much of the fatal interpersonal violence concentrated in the country’s largest cities. Firearms are involved in as much as 80% of homicides in Colombia. Objective To evaluate the effect of an...