Objectives To examine the perceived benefits of and barriers to law enforcement agencies providing increased access to voluntary and temporary firearm storage. Methods We surveyed 448 police chiefs and sheriffs in 8 US Mountain West states about firearm storage...
Current research on illegal acquisition and the impact of related policies illustrates that there are policies that effectively reduce diversion and have positive impacts on firearm-related violence. However, there is a paucity of research that use strong study...
Background Mortality from firearms among US schoolchildren is an increasingly major clinical and public health crisis. We explored temporal trends in mortality from firearms among US schoolchildren from 1999 to 2017 by age and race. Methods We used the Multiple Cause...
Objective Access to firearms is an independent risk factor for completed suicide and homicide, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians screen and counsel about firearm access and safe storage. This study investigates how often pediatric...
In 1988, 18 181 firearm suicides accounted for 53% of the firearm deaths in the United States,’ outnumbering firearm homicides by almost 5000. Firearms accounted for 60% of all suicides.1 However, relatively little is known about the types of firearms used in...
