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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
Access to Firearms and Risk for Suicide in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Older adults are at a high risk for suicide, and this study looks specifically into their suicide risk associated with access to and storage of guns.
Acceptability and Use of Evidence-Based Practices for Firearm Storage in Pediatric Primary Care
This study examined the use of a Firearm Safety Check intervention by primary care physicians and found that screening for firearms and safe storage was common but not routine.
AAST Statement on Firearm Injury
In this statement by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, board leaders challenge government officials to address firearm injury as a public health problem and propose multiple levels of reform.
A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of a Lethal Means Safety Intervention for Young Adults With Firearm Familiarity at Risk for Suicide
This study found that normalizing firearm ownership and emphasizing temporariness of limiting access to firearms during at-risk times can encourage those at increased suicide risk to adhere to clinician recommendations around safety planning.
A Multicenter Evaluation of a Firearm Safety Intervention in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting
The majority of parents who owned and kept guns reported that they would change the way they stored firearms based on a tablet-based questionnaire that included a firearm safety message.
A Comparison of Intimate Partner Homicide to Intimate Partner Homicide–Suicide One Hundred and Twenty-Four New Mexico Cases
This study examined cases of female intimate partner homicide–suicide to female intimate partner homicide alone and found that differences in marital relationship, age, blood alcohol, and the use of firearm were risk factors. The results suggest that interventions including removal of firearms can be used in reducing the rate of intimate partner homicide.
#ThisIsOurLane — Firearm Safety as Health Care’s Highway
Following the National Rifle Association's tweet chiding "doctors to stay in their lane," physicians across specialties and the political spectrum respond with the many ways that firearm injuries and deaths affect the medical community and the patients it serves.
Protecting America’s Schools
A U.S. Secret Service analysis of targeted school violence from 2008 to 2017 with analysis of threat assessment.
EFSGV: Lethal Means Safety Counseling
Facts and recommendations for lethal means safety counseling to help prevent firearm-related injury and death by EFSGV
APA Resources for Coping with Mass Shootings, Understanding Gun Violence
Resources by the American Psychological Association (APA) to help those suffering from the distress of mass shootings and help understand firearm violence.
A Guide to Mass Shootings in America
Mother Jones guide to mass shootings in America with open-source database documenting mass shootings and discussing analytical findings.
VA Lethal Means Safety Training Video
Training course and resources on lethal means safety for clinicians and Veteran Health Affairs facility coordinators.