Background Gun buyback programs represent one arm of a multipronged approach to raise awareness and education about gun safety. Methods The city of Worcester, MA has conducted an annual gun buyback at the Police Department Headquarters since 2002. We analyzed survey...
Purpose of Review This reviews the history of gun buybacks and the literature to determine their impact and efficacy, as well as highlighting salient critiques. Finally, we discuss potential avenues that would enhance our understanding of buybacks and methods to...
Background Gun violence remains a leading cause of death in the United States. Community gun buyback programs provide an opportunity to dispose of extraneous firearms. The purpose of this study was to understand the demographics, motivation, child access to firearms,...
Background To describe the demographic characteristics and burden of pediatric suicides by firearm in the U.S. using a large all-payer, pediatric inpatient care database. METHODS:Children and young adults (<21 years old) were identified with an ICD-9 diagnosis of...
