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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"firearm"”.
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Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010
Annually firearms kill more than 30,000 individuals and injure more than 50,000 individuals, resulting in costs of $45 million to over $1 billion in the United States. Traditionally firearms were addressed as a criminal justice problem, but for more than 30 years, public health and injury …
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Determining Subgroups That Exist Among US Firearm Owners
… sought to identify and verify unique classes of firearm owners that exist within the United States (US) and to determine the sources that each class deemed credible to discuss safe firearm storage for suicide prevention. Methods: The study is composed of three parts, each with its own unique …
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Tribological Comparison of Traditional and Advanced Firearm Coatings
… best performance characteristics for finishing firearms. This is accomplished by measuring and comparing several performance characteristics, such as: adhesion, hardness, wear resistance, friction control, and corrosion resistance. Appearance is not a factor since any exterior coating that is …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
… injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence differently, either by strengthening or deregulating existing firearm legislation. In Texas, the legislature passed an open …
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Spatial Distributions of Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence by Firearm Involvement
… by whether the incident was domestic or not, firearm-involved or not, and any combination of these characteristics, to determine if disaggregation of the data into subgroups may aid in policy development. Data on murder, non-negligent manslaughter, and aggravated assault incidents reported to …
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Firearm Adoption in the Societies of the Lower Zambezi, 1600-1888
Firearms have been present on the African continent almost from their very inception, with many regions in North Africa as well as a select few coastal areas in West, Central and East Africa either accessing or being in contact with guns from as early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. …
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Firearm-related injuries in Cape Town children and youth 1992-1996
… was to determine the epidemiological profile of firearm-related injuries among children and youth under 19 years of age in Cape Town during the period 1 January 1992 - 31 December 1996. The purpose of the study was to make recommendations for future research, policies, prevention programmes and …
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A critical analysis of firearm control in post-apartheid South Africa
… hypothesis that the implementation of stringent firearm control in South Africa will significantly decrease levels of violent crime. First, the specific dynamics of violent crime in this country are examined, in order to establish whether firearm control constitutes a fitting response to the …
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Epidemiological review of paediatric firearm injuries and mortalities in Cape Town
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Suicide and Firearm Access among Legal System Involved Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
… DV. Quantifying the risk of suicide and firearm suicide among perpetrators of DV involved in the legal system will provide knowledge to inform current policies and practice to prevent suicide and protect victim-survivors of DV. We used two populations of legal system involved perpetrators …
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Distinguishing homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities: the role of skeletal trauma analysis
… president (1970-1973), committed suicide by firearm during the military coup against his socialist government on September 11, 1973. Included in the final report was the anthropologists’ skeletal trauma analysis documenting the gunshot trauma to the skull as consistent with the passage of a …
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Click, click, boom: a multi-level analysis of repeat firearm offending in Chattanooga, Tennessee
… have long noted the exacerbated rates of firearm-related offending in the United States in comparison to other developed nations. There has been a renewed focus on gun crime in the wake of a recent dramatic reversal of the long-trending decrease in firearm-related violence. Explorations of …
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Political Beliefs, Region of Residence, and Openness to Firearm Means Safety Measures to Prevent Suicide
<p>Firearms account for approximately half of all suicides in the US and are highly lethal, widely available, and popular; thus, firearms are an ideal candidate for targeted means safety interventions. However, despite their value as a suicide prevention tool, firearm means safety strategies are …
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Fear as a predictor of firearm ownership and concealed weapons permits in Clark County, Nevada
… fear and gun possession [defined in terms of firearms registration] and the relationship between fear and the issuance of concealed weapons permits, were posited. Data for the number of registered firearms and issued concealed weapons permits were obtained from the Las Vegas Metropolitan …
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Emergency Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices Regarding Firearms and Firearm Injury Prevention for Children
… were 134 deaths attributed to unintentional firearm injuries of children under 19 year and 3,019 nonfatal injuries (CDC, 2011). Nurses are expected to identify potential dangers in the community and protect those at risk. It was found that there is limited research on the effectiveness of …
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Mobile Firearm Simulation Training Systems: Perceptions of Officers from Small and Rural Law Enforcement Agencies
<p>One hundred and one small and rural law enforcement officers from Kentucky, Washington and Texas were surveyed and interviewed regarding their perceptions of a mobile use-of-force simulation training system. PRiSim. Specifically, attitudes toward comfort level with interactivity, value of the …
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Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum
… Index is the most commonly used proxy for firearm prevalence. This research uses New York's Pistol Permits to measure legitimate firearm prevalence and compare it to Cook's Index. In this study, Cook's Index predicted impossible values for several counties that together contained a clear …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River medico-legal laboratory in 1999 and their investigative outcome by 2004
The Republic of South Africa has OIle of the most liberal and human rights based constitutions wor1dWlde, with a very idealistic vision of individual freedom, alleviation of poverty access to education and health care and safety Many of the ideals are In direct redress of the previous regime, where …
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An investigation of firearm-related injuries and fatalities amongst children in the Cape Metropolitan Area (2001-2006)
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-79).
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River Medico-Legal Laboratory in 2009 and their investigative outcome by 2014
… on the victimology and investigative outcomes of firearm deaths of 1999 in the Salt River Medico - Legal Laboratory drainage area. There were some compelling results, including a remarkably low conviction rate of 7.21%. In 2000 new legislation was enacted, which is the Firearms Control Act (1) of …
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