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The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991–2016: A Panel Study
Universal background checks and violent misdemeanor laws were associated with reductions in firearm-related homicide rates, while "shall issue" laws were associated an increase in firearm rates.
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States with universal background checks, may issue, and violent misdemeanor laws experienced 36.1% lower homicide rates.
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Securing firearms and preventing easy access to firearms via "safe storage" laws and other practices may reduce rates of youth suicide.
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Interventions that prevent ready access to firearms by youth may lead to reductions in youth suicides, as states with high levels of household gun ownership are more likely to have higher incidents youth suicides.
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Firearm availability is associated with youth suicide, indicating that policies and practices limiting youth access to firearms may reduce youth deaths by suicide.
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Handgun waiting periods, firearm permits, prohibition of firearm possession by a person convicted of a violent misdemeanor, and firearm relinquishment programs led to a lower percentage of in-state gun ownership and a lower chance that recovered guns were from an in-state source, suggesting guns tend to move from states with fewer restrictions into states with more restrictions.
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Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if all states required people under domestic violence restraining orders to relinquish their firearms and instituted may issue laws, giving authorities some level of discretion over the issuance of concealed carry permits.
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State laws that prohibit people subject to a domestic abuse related restraining from owning guns and requiring them to relinquish any firearms in their possessions save lives. Such laws led to reductions in total and firearm-related intimate partner violence homicide rates.
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States restricting possession of large capacity ammunition magazines also have lower numbers of mass shootings.
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Speakers discuss their research on the relationship between state domestic violence-related firearm laws and rates of intimate partner homicide across all 50 states from 1991-2015.
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States with laws requiring people that are subject to domestic violence restraining orders relinquish their firearms have lower rates of intimate partner homicide.
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May-issue laws, those in which authorities have some discretion in whether or not to issue concealed carry permits, may prevent homicide deaths.
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