This paper focuses on the long-term objective of Firearms Protocol supplementing United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to reduce certain kinds armed violence associated with misuse firearms. More than 15 years after has come into force, authors ask how its possible impacts might be assessed; indicate key challenges for such an enterprise, and suggest directions future ...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a pilot program to reduce unauthorized access to firearms by youth by distributing gun safes and trigger locks to households. DESIGN Pilot intervention with pre/post-evaluation design. SETTING Two Alaska Native villages in the Bristol Bay Health Corporation region of southwest Alaska. SUBJECTS Forty randomly selected households with two or more guns in th...

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OBJECTIVE To raise awareness of the impact of homicides in Puerto Rico based on the findings of the spatial and temporal distribution of homicides and the use of firearms, by age and gender, using reports of interpersonal violent deaths from the Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. METHODS This was a descriptive study of all homicide incidents in Puerto ...

BACKGROUND While the majority of veteran suicides involve firearms, no contemporary data describing firearm ownership among US veterans are available. This study uses survey data to describe the prevalence of firearm ownership among a nationally representative sample of veterans, as well as veterans' reasons for firearm ownership. METHODS A cross-sectional, nationally representative web-based...

This study evaluated behavioral skills training (BST), in a multiple baseline across subjects design, for teaching firearm safety skills to 6 6- and 7-year-old children. Similar to previous research with 4- and 5-year-olds, half of the children acquired the safety skills following BST and half acquired the skills following BST plus in situ training.