BACKGROUND Persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs), known as respondents, are generally prohibited from possessing firearms. Efforts to enforce that prohibition have not been evaluated. The study objective was to determine whether associations exist between risk of incident arrest among DVRO respondents and 1) respondents' access to firearms, and 2) law enforcement recov...

OBJECTIVE To determine the household prevalence of firearms in Pennsylvania, and describe the storage practices for these weapons. DESIGN A statewide telephone survey of 3,620 Pennsylvania adults selected from households by random digit dialing in 1994. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Firearm ownership and storage practices were computed by household characteristics using logistic regression. RESUL...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of household firearms and firearm-storage practices in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and estimate the number of children exposed to unsafe storage practices. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2002 cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey of 240735 adults from randomly selected households with telephones in the 50 state...

Canadian Bill C-17 was implemented in 1991 to restrict the use of firearms, providing a chance to investigate the effect of firearm control laws in the use of firearms for suicide and homicide. Following Lester and Leenaars' comprehensive studies, the present study examined the use of firearms for suicide and homicide during the period prior to the bill and during the period after the passing o...

BACKGROUND The 1996 Australian National Firearms Agreement introduced strict access limitations. However, reports on the effectiveness of the new legislation are conflicting. This study, accessing all cases of suicide 1997-2004, explores factors which may impact on the choice of firearms as a suicide method, including current licence possession and previous history of legal access. METHODS De...

he Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) is conducting systematic reviews of scientific evidence about diverse interventions or the prevention of violence, and resulting injury and eath, including, among others, early childhood home isitation,1,2 therapeutic foster care,3 the transfer of juveiles to the adult justice system, school programs for the eaching of prosocial be...

While national firearms regulations often restrict the types of firearms civilians may legally own, such regulations do not necessarily eliminate demand. Prohibitions on handguns in particular have led some parties to devise new means to acquire these or comparable firearms. One common method involves mechanically altering an accessible replica firearm to function in a similar way as a restrict...

OBJECTIVES This study determined the prevalence and storage patterns of firearms in US homes with children. METHODS We analyzed data from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey and Year 2000 objectives supplement. A multistage sample design was used to represent the civilian noninstitutionalized US population. RESULTS Respondents from 35% of the homes with children younger than 18 years ...

While national firearms regulations often restrict the types of firearms civilians may legally own, such regulations do not necessarily eliminate demand. Prohibitions on handguns in particular have led some parties to devise new means to acquire these or comparable firearms. One common method involves mechanically altering an accessible replica firearm to function in a similar way as a restrict...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated a law enforcement initiative to screen respondents to domestic violence restraining orders for firearm ownership or possession and recover their firearms. METHODS The initiative was implemented in San Mateo and Butte counties in California from 2007 through 2010. We used descriptive methods to evaluate the screening process and recovery effort in each county, relying o...