Background Firearm injuries are a long-running yet preventable public health concern in the USA. We analyzed national inpatient data to determine the burden of firearm injuries on the USA hospital system. For each year from 2000–2014 and 2016–2020, we calculated the...
Introduction Levels of gun ownership and lethal violence in the U.S. far surpass those in any other developed country, and yet, there is little known about the origins of these trends owing to a lack of historical data on the prevalence of gun ownership. To fill this...
Importance Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws temporarily suspend firearm and ammunition access by individuals whom a judge has deemed to be at substantial risk of harming themselves or others. Despite widespread recent adoption of these laws, use of ERPOs has...
One way to reduce firearm suicide is to keep household guns away from a person at risk for suicide. To learn who owned (and presumably controlled access to) the guns used in suicide and which broad gun type they were, we examined National Violent Death Reporting...
Introduction Firearms are now the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens ages 0–19. The U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reported data in 2022 on firearm production, for specific firearm types and...
