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Firearm-related personal and clinical characteristics of US medical students.(Original Article)
Southern Medical Journal; 3/1/2006; Frank, Erica Carrera, Jennifer S. Prystowsky, Jason Kellermann, Arthur; 6659 words
; Background: Firearm injuries are the second leading cause ... societies encourage patient counseling about firearm injury prevention. Because personal choices ... and current rates of counseling about firearm injury prevention. Methods: At a nationally ...
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Association of selected risk factors with variation in child and adolescent firearm mortality by state.(Research Papers)
Journal of School Health; 10/1/2004; Murnan, Judy Dake, Joseph A. Price, James H.; 4709 words
; American youth suffer a rate of firearm trauma that is the highest in the industrialized ... comparison of international patterns of firearm mortality in youth less than 15 years ... found that US children had 17 times higher firearm-related homicides, 10 times higher firearm-relat ...
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Reexamining the importance of firearm investigations
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 5/1/1999; Vizzard, William J; 2610 words
; Historically, most firearm laws in the United States have focused ... especially felons, from receiving or possessing firearms. While these laws have advocated denying these individuals access to firearms, critics often complain that the laws have ...
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Unintentional firearm deaths: Can they be reduced by lowering gun ownership levels?
Canadian Journal of Public Health; 9/1/2001; Thomas Gabor; Julian V Roberts; Karin Stein; Lia DiGiulio; 2466 words
; Firearm-related deaths are a leading cause of injury-related premature mortality. In the United States, wounds inflicted by a firearm are second only to motor vehicle crashes as a cause of ... conducted in 1991 showed that the risk of death from a firearm discharge rivaled that resulting from a motor vehicle ...
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Firearm safety courses for elementary school-age children
Canadian Journal of Public Health; 1/1/1999; Katherine A Leonard; 1893 words
; Firearm Safety Education programs for children have recently become ... these education courses reduce the risk of unintentional firearm injury in children.2 Critics charge that these safety education programs are a thinly veiled promotion of firearm usage to young people and a way to improve the image of ...
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Future physicians and firearms: the need for additional training in firearm injury prevention counseling.(Editorial)
Southern Medical Journal; 3/1/2006; Coyne-Beasley, Tamera Theodore, Adrea; 1420 words
; Firearm injury is a major public health issue, with a significant ... 1-5) Physicians can be involved in the prevention of firearm injuries and many professional medical organizations have policy statements with firearm injury prevention strategies. (1-8) One role outlined for ...
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Estimating Intruder-Related Firearm Retrievals in U.S. Households, 1994
Violence and Victims; 1/1/1997; Robin M Ikeda; Linda L Dahlberg; Jeffrey J Sacks; James A Mercy; Kenneth E Powell; 3343 words
; To estimate the frequency of firearm retrieval because of a known or presumed intruder ... interviews). Three mutually exclusive definitions of firearm retrieval were constructed: (1) retrieved a firearm because there might be an intruder, (2) retrieved ...
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Defining "use" of a firearm.(Supreme Court Review)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; 3/22/1997; Gilbert, Alan M.; 9596 words
; ... Supreme Court held that in order to use a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime ... Columbia of, inter alia, using or carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking offense ... that a defendant must actively employ a firearm in a manner that makes the firearm an ...
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Firearm Injuries in Nairobi, Kenya: Who Pays the Price?
Journal of Public Health Policy; 10/1/2007; Hugenberg, Florian; Anjango, Walter Odhiambo; Mwita, Angela; Opondo, Dedan; 3634 words
; ABSTRACT Because firearm injuries affect the health and social ... Horn of Africa. We studied persons with firearm injuries who reached Kenyatta National ... 1057/palgrave.jphp.3200152 Keywords: firearm injuries, armed violence, Africa, Kenya ...
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Business hits robust level: an energized industry enjoys brisk sales.(U.S. Firearm Business)
Shooting Industry; 7/1/2007; Thurman, Russ; 3616 words
; ... Remington Arms Co. again dominated U.S. firearm manufacturing, outdistancing other companies by nearly 200,000 firearms to top the list of the Top 25 U.S. Manufacturers ... read that Remington was the largest U.S. firearm manufacturer for the fifth year in a row ... consumers, Millner said. Manufacturing ...
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