Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm related crimes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the retailer and community level factors associated with frequent and disproportionate sales of handguns that are later used in violent and firearm related crimes (VFC handguns).

Design

Cross sectional. The authors used California records to identify all handguns sold by study subjects during 1996-2000 and federal gun tracing records to determine which of these guns had been recovered by a police agency in the US or elsewhere and traced by 30 September 2003.

Subjects and setting

The 421 licensed gun retailers in California selling at least 100 handguns annually during 1996-2000.

Main outcome measure

The number of VFC handguns per 1000 gun years of exposure. Differences are expressed as incidence rate ratios (RR) with 95% confidence interv

SUBMITTER: Wintemute GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1730299 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature