Development of the RAND State Firearm Law Database and Supporting Materials

Cherney, Samantha; Morral, Andrew R.; Schell, Terry L.; Smucker, Sierra

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“…Results were cross-referenced with available data on firearm law databases. 2,12 Data extracted from ERPO statutes included initial enactment date; order type; definitions; notice of, hearing, and court approval requirements; standard of burden of proof and behaviors considered to obtain orders; process for search and seizure; penalties for filing false or harassing petitions; and availability of methods to challenge orders or recover firearms. Data extracted for preemptive bills and statutes included the date of proposal/enactment, definitions, and preemption provisions and rationales.…”

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Firearm Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws and Preemption: New Developments and Outstanding Issues, 50 States, 2020

Pomeranz

Ochoa

2021

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Firearm Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws and Preemption: New Developments and Outstanding Issues, 50 States, 2020

Pomeranz

Ochoa

2021

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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“…We construct a measure of state gun regulations from a longitudinal database of state firearm laws published by the RAND Corporation. 14 The dataset was created through mining primary and secondary sources on state gun laws that were implemented or modified between 1979 and 2022. We focus our attention on nine categories of laws that were implemented or modified in at least one-third of US states at some point from 1991 to 2016: background check requirements, concealed carry laws, castle doctrine laws, child access laws, minimum age requirements for purchase, prohibited possessor laws, safety training requirements, laws requiring a waiting period before purchase, and laws that allow or require police officers to seize a firearm at the scene of domestic violence incidents.…”

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“…Further, we draw on two longitudinal datasets of state gun laws to consider the cumulative effect of a range of gun policies and regulations implemented at the state level. 14,15 We conduct an extensive set of robustness checks using multiple measures of gun prevalence and a range of different analytic approaches, including two instrumental variables analyses that allow for stronger causal claims.…”

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The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 2016

Sharkey,

Kang

2023

Epidemiology

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Background: The recent rise of gun violence may lead to the perception that the problem of gun mortality in the United States is intractable. This article provides evidence to counter this perception by bringing attention to the period spanning from 1991 to 2016, when most U.S. states implemented more restrictive gun laws. Over this period, the U.S. experienced a decline in household gun ownership and gun-related deaths fell sharply. Methods: The main analysis examines the conditional association between change in gun regulations at the state level and change in gun mortality from 1991 to 2016. We include a range of robustness checks and two instrumental variables analyses to allow for stronger causal inferences. Results: We find strong, consistent evidence supporting the hypothesis that restrictive state gun policies reduce overall gun deaths, homicides committed with a gun, and suicides committed with a gun. Each additional restrictive gun regulation a given state passed from 1991-2016 was associated with -0.21 (95% confidence interval = −0.33, -0.08) gun deaths per 100,000 residents. Further, we find that specific policies, such as background checks and waiting periods for gun purchase, were associated with lower overall gun death rates, gun homicide rates, and gun suicide rates. Conclusions: State regulations passed from 1991 to 2016 were associated with substantial reductions in gun mortality. We estimate that restrictive state gun policies passed in 40 states from 1991 to 2016 averted 4,297 gun deaths in 2016 alone, or roughly 11% of the total gun deaths that year.

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“…• Recommendation 18. As part of the Gun Policy in America initiative, we have published a database containing a subset of state gun laws from 1979 to 2021 (Cherney et al, 2022). We ask that others with expertise on state gun laws help us improve the database by notifying us of its errors, proposing more-useful categorizations of laws, or submitting information on laws not yet incorporated into the database.…”

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The Science of Gun Policy: A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States, Third Edition

2023

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Effective gun policies in the United States must balance Second Amendment rights and public interest in gun ownership with concerns about public health and safety. However, efforts to craft legislation related to guns are hampered by a paucity of reliable information about the effects of such policies. To help address this problem, the RAND Corporation launched the Gun Policy in America initiative. Throughout RAND's 70-year history, in multiple projects, in many policy arenas, and on topics that are sensitive and controversial, researchers have conducted analyses, built tools, and developed resources to help policy makers and the public make effective decisions. The primary goal of the Gun Policy in America project is to create resources where policymakers and the general public can access unbiased information that facilitates the development of fair and effective firearm policies.This initiative has yielded several research products, such as a state firearm law database; surveys of policy experts that identified where access to reliable data would be most useful in resolving policy debates; various tools and methodological reports for researchers; and the first and second editions of this report, which synthesized the available scientific data on the effects of 18 types of firearm policies on a variety of outcomes related to gun ownership. This third edition builds on the second edition by updating the literature review to include studies published through October 2020. The result is a substantially updated synthesis of the available evidence concerning the effects of 18 types of gun policies.The Gun Policy in America initiative did not attempt to evaluate the merits of different values or principles that sometimes drive policy disagreements. Rather, our focus is strictly on the empirical effects of policies on the eight outcomes specified in this report. All of our resources are publicly available on the project website at www.rand.org/gunpolicy.The work should be of interest to policymakers and other stakeholders considering decisions related to firearm policy. Furthermore, this report may be of interest to the research community and to the general public. Justice Policy ProgramRAND Social and Economic Well-Being is a division of the RAND Corporation that seeks to actively improve the health and social and economic well-being of populations and communities throughout the world. This research was conducted in the Justice Policy Program within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being. The program focuses on such topics as access to justice, policing, corrections, drug policy, and court system reform, as well as other policy concerns pertaining to public safety and criminal and civil justice. For more information, email

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Development of the RAND State Firearm Law Database and Supporting Materials

Cited by 15 publications

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Firearm Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws and Preemption: New Developments and Outstanding Issues, 50 States, 2020

Firearm Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws and Preemption: New Developments and Outstanding Issues, 50 States, 2020

The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 2016

The Science of Gun Policy: A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States, Third Edition

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