Many thanks to Alex McCourt of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions for this thoughtful commentary on our new paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

"Our finding that most … firearm policies have … modest … effect sizes reflects that each … is a small part of a complex system shaping firearm violence. However, we found that combinations of the studied policies were reliably associated with … shifts in firearm mortality."

We’re proud to look back on five years of growing the evidence base for gun violence prevention. rand.org/pubs/commentar…

They find that higher household firearm ownership at the population level predicts increases in suicide in the following years, but increases in suicide do not predict increases in ownership.

Higher firearm ownership rates predict later increases in suicide rates especially well for men: men with equal suicide rates but differing by 1 std. dev. in ownership differ by 4+ suicides per 100k 8-yrs later, accounting for almost 1/3 of the total firearm suicide rate for men.

Andrew Morral Excellent paper! Added to our syllabus!

Although higher household firearm ownership rates (HFR) did not significantly predict later homicide rates overall, in preregistered subgroup analyses evidence for such an association was found among women and white subpopulations.

🗓️🖊️Mark your calendar! VPRP's Dr. Hannah Laqueur will present her investigation into the movement of firearms from legal sales to criminal hands in California. The webinar will be hosted by Gun Research Collaborative on 10/8/24 at 11am PT. Register today: ncgvr.org/events/gun-vio…

🚨🚨 Just wild. A federal court has said the longstanding ban on possessing MACHINEGUNS violates the Second Amendment! I'm fairly certain this will be overturned, but the fact it occurred is another signal that Bruen is simply choose your own adventure. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Amanda Weiss Important work, and seems consistent with earlier findings by RAND folks like Beth Ann Griffin Andrew Morral and Terri Schell. rand.org/pubs/research_…

Decisions for our 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms went out today! I am so happy to share that we will have nearly 400 (!) presentations of interdisciplinary, rigorous, and impactful new science shared in Seattle this December. /1