Individual, firearm, and purchasing characteristics associated with risk of firearm-related violent crime arrest: a nested case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Firearm purchasing records offer a potentially important administrative data source to identify individuals at elevated risk of perpetrating firearm violence. In this study, we describe individual, firearm, and transaction characteristics of purchasers in California who were arrested for a firearm-related violent crime (FRV) as compared to the general population of registered purchasers in the state.

Methods

Relying on a dataset of all individuals with transaction records in California (1996-2021), linked to criminal records (1980-2021), we enrolled a cohort of individuals for whom we could capture the legal firearm purchase history. We identified those arrested for FRV post purchase, and using incidence density sampling, gender-matched cases to ten purchasers (co

SUBMITTER: Laqueur HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11373450 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature