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.

Lifetime and Past-Year Defensive Gun Use

Firearm Storage

Frequency of Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native US Residents Screened for Firearm Access

Youth and Gun Violence

Adverse childhood experiences and defensive gun use: The indirect role of threat sensitivity and depressive symptoms

Perceived benefits and risks of keeping firearms in and around the home: Results from a nationally representative survey

Determining who military service members deem credible to discuss firearm safety for suicide prevention

Firearm access and gun violence exposure among American Indian or Alaska Native and Black Adults

Revisiting the relationship between concealed carry licenses and firearm homicide in the United States: A reciprocal county-level analysis

Interactions At the Point of Firearm Purchase and Subsequent Use of Locking Devices

Differences in firearm storage practices among United States military service members who have and have not disclosed suicidal thoughts or attended behavioral health sessions