Background Despite growing evidence about how state-level firearm regulations affect overall rates of injury and death, little is known about whether potential harms or benefits of firearm laws are evenly distributed across demographic subgroups. In this systematic...
In this report, part of the RAND Corporation’s Gun Policy in America initiative, researchers seek objective information about what the scientific literature reveals about the likely effects of various gun laws. In this second edition of an earlier work, the...
Although 39,000 individuals die annually from gunshots in the US, research examining the effects of laws designed to reduce these deaths has sometimes produced inconclusive or contradictory findings. We evaluated the effects on total firearm-related deaths of three...
Background There is debate whether policies that reduce firearm suicides or homicides are offset by increases in non–firearm-related deaths. Objectives To assess the extent to which changes in firearm homicides and suicides following implementation of various...
