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Firearm Safety

Studies in this topic area focus on safety efforts to reduce the number of deaths from gun violence. This area may include studies on safe storage practices, effects of legislation on unintentional firearm deaths, and the practitioners role in safety practices.

Determining who military service members deem credible to discuss firearm safety...

Objective:To examine rankings of credible sources for discussing secure storage within a representative sample of firearm-owning service members, and examine how combinations of demographic...

Firearm access and gun violence exposure among American Indian or Alaska...

Objective:To explore geodemographic differences in firearm behaviors and violence exposure among American Indian or Alaska Native and Black adults in the US. Method:In this survey...

Revisiting the relationship between concealed carry licenses and firearm homicide in...

Objective:This study investigates the reciprocal county-level relationship between the number of concealed carry weapon (CCW) licenses issued and homicides between 2010 and 2019 in...

Interactions At the Point of Firearm Purchase and Subsequent Use of...

Objective:Examined the extent to which firearms retailers notifying purchasers at the point of sale about the included cable locks was associated with subsequent locking...

Differences in firearm storage practices among United States military service members...

Objective:Two-thirds of military suicides are by firearm, and unsafe storage increases the risk of suicide. Understanding who is at risk for suicide, their interactions...

Lethal means safety counseling among firearm-owning US National Guard personnel:  Hyperarousal...

Objective:To examine whether lethal means counseling and provision of cable locks prompt safe firearm storage relative to control among firearm-owning members of the Mississippi...

New Jersey Safe Firearm Storage Map

Objective:This grant facilitated the creation and dissemination of the New Jersey Safe Firearm Storage Map, a free online tool to connect New Jersey firearm...

The Relationship between Concealed Carry Licenses and Firearm Homicide in the...

Objective:This study investigates the reciprocal county-level relationship between the number of concealed carry weapon (CCW) licenses issued and homicides between 2010 and 2019 in...

Assessment of Firearm Storage Practices in the US, 2022

Objective:To develop a more thorough understanding of firearm storage practices, obstacles to using locking devices, and circumstances in which firearm owners would consider locking...

Conformity to masculine role norms, firearm storage behaviors, and openness to...

Objective:Understanding the sociocultural characteristics that are associated with US firearm owners' current storage practices and openness to means safety can inform suicide prevention initiatives....