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Handguns in the 1990s

Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1996;275(22):1749-1753.

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IN 1994, an estimated 39720 persons died from firearm-related injuries.¹ Firearms now rank a close second to motor vehicles as a cause of traumatic death nationwide. This convergence results not so much from an increase in the firearm-related death rate, which has remained relatively stable for the past 15 years, as from a steady decrease in the death rate from motor vehicle injuries.² That decrease stems in large part from an explicit focus on the contribution to motor vehicle death rates made by the design and marketing of motor vehicles themselves.^3,4 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis.

Footnotes
Reprints: Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH, Violence Prevention Research Program, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817.

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