Presents the results of a study conducted by the Violence Prevention Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health on the threat posed by handguns in th...
Since firearms, especially handguns, are purchased for protection, and many of those owners want quick availability to their loaded firearm, then a storage box with smart technology might be more acceptable than a comparable firearm. This technology could help reduce unintentional firearm deaths, and...
Handguns were the leading cause of officer deaths, the report said. One of the officers killed with a handgun was Sgt. David Christopher Fitzgerald. He was shot while patrolling for a suspicious person on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Five deaths ...
During a second firearm buyback in 2003, 68 727 handguns were collected and destroyed.5,6 Thousands of gun owners also voluntarily surrendered additional, nonprohibited firearms without compensation, and since 1996 thousands more privately owned firearms are known to have been surrendered, seized,...
Ifpeoplehavenoeasyaccesstohandguns, dotheyuseotherweapons? Forhomicides:No Mayhew(1988): UShandgunhomiciderate=175xEnglish andWelshrate. UShomicideratebyothermeans=3.7UK rate Ataleoftwocities:SeattleandVancouver Sloan (1988) compares Seattle and Vancouver, two cities with similar population, climate...
including the decline of murders in 1999; Parallel of the fall in gun-related death or injury to the fall in the overall crime rate; Suggestion that the low unemployment rate is a key element to the decline in crime; Thought that the efforts to reduce the availability of handguns has ...
Vol 47, No. 9. Hyattsville, Md: National Center for Health Statistics; 1998 [ PubMed ]Wintemute, G. J., Parham, C. A., Beaumont, J. J., Wright, M., & Drake, C. (1999). Mortality among recent purchasers of handguns. New England Journal of Medicine , 341 , 1583–1589...
thousands of older adults die from firearm-related injuries. The purpose of this study was to characterize the similarities and differences in the three main forms of firearm mortality (homicides, suicides, and unintentional) in older adults. Using the Web-based Inquiry Statistics Query and ...
Handguns (64%) were the most common firearm used, followed by shotguns (11%) and hunting rifles (6%). Large proportions (57–77%) of licensing and safety variables were missing, but still, a higher proportion of unintentional deaths (21%) involved unlicensed firearms compared to homicide (...