Effects of Comprehensive Background-Check Policies on Firearm Fatalities in 4 States.

ABSTRACT: Despite promising results from individual-level studies, state-level studies of the effectiveness of comprehensive background-check (CBC) policies in reducing firearm fatalities have yielded null results in multiple states. These prior studies focused on CBC laws adopted in the 1990s, when record keeping was far less complete. We estimated the effect of the implementation of CBC policies on state-level firearm homicide and suicide rates in states implementing CBC policies from 2013 to 2015 (Colorado, Delaware, Oregon, and Washington). We compared age-adjusted firearm homicide and suicide rates, measured annually from 15 years prior to policy implementation until 2019, in each treated state to rates in control groups constructed using the synthetic control group method. Differences in firea

SUBMITTER: Kagawa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089059 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature