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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.

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...

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...

2022 Report on Firearms in New Jersey

Objective:The purpose of this report was to provide an accurate description of firearm access in New Jersey.  Specifically, we wanted to know...

Gun Prevention Survey: NJ Primary Care Physicians, Pediatricians, and Geriatricians (with...

Objective:The purpose of this project is to create and disseminate a survey to Primary Care Physicians (PCPs), Pediatricians, and Geriatricians in NJ...

Revisiting Firearms Training and Safety Operations in New Jersey

Objective:The study explores the curriculums of firearm training courses in New Jersey. As an exploratory study, we 1) audit basic firearm training...

Regional Partnership to Map Safe Gun Storage Locations

Objective:This study is a national- and regional-level partnership to provide maps to the public that communicate safe storage locations for firearms. There...