RESEARCH & RESOURCES

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
We are pleased to provide these links so you can do your own research on the gun issue.

GENERAL RESOURCES

Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (Ed Fund)
Per their website, his website was developed to serve as a comprehensive resource for researchers, reporters, and gun violence prevention advocates, activists, and organizations.

GunPolicy.org International Firearm Injury Prevention and Policy
Provides facts and news clips on firearm injury prevention and policy across the world.

GVPedia, Gun Violence Research
Search the GVPedia database of more than 1,000 academic studies analyzing a wide range of gun violence subjects. This collection of research can be searched by topic, author, journal, and year of publication. Each study is accompanied by an abstract, and hundreds of studies have the full text available for you to read.

Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Provides a database of social science, criminology, law reviews, medical and public health research concerning firearms.

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Gun Policy and Research
Provides publications on a variety of gun violence prevention topics.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Searches criminal and juvenile justice publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States around the world including statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control- Guide for Communicating about Injury
Provides guidelines for communicating effectively about injury, including gun injuries.

PubMed
Searches biomedical and life sciences journals

SafetyLit
Searches current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention, including violence and weapons issues

The Joyce Foundation invests in reforming public policies and systems to improve the lives of people in the Great Lakes region and beyond. One of our chief considerations in deciding what to fund is the likelihood that our resources can make a difference. So we invest significantly in research and studies to gather facts and data that not only help shape policy development, but also provide evidence advocates can cite in making the case for reform.

UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP)
VPRP conducts research to develop sound scientific evidence on the nature, causes, consequences, and prevention of firearm violence.

26 Resources to Further Your Understanding of Gun Violence in America via The Trace
Current information from credible resources to help dig deeper in why we have so much gun violence in America.

Topical gun violence prevention issues with an informative podcast format.


RESOURCES BY TOPIC

ARMED AND PROHIBITED CA LAW

      Armed and prohibited: characteristics of unlawful owners of legally purchased firearms-March 
        2020

       Felons have high gun ownership rates despite prohibitions/Press Release March 2020

      
       Felons have a high gun ownership rates despite prohibitions-March 2020

ASSAULT WEAPONS
 
     That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work    

BRADY BACKGROUND CHECKS

CALIFORNIA  GUN VIOLENCE RESTRAINING ORDER (GVRO)
      Speak for Safety, Raising awareness of the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO)
      Assessment of Extreme Risk Protection Order Use in California from 2016 to 2019, June 18, 2020

CARRY CONCEAL LAWS
   
      2017 Stanford Study Reveals CCW Increases Violent Crime

CHILDREN AND GUNS
      7 years old and shattered by gun violence  David Hemenway, Washington Post March 25, 2021

COST OF GUN VIOLENCE
    The Economic Cost of Gun Violence Everytown  February 17, 2021
    

EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDERS  (CA-GUN VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS)
    Assessment of Extreme Risk Protection Order Use in California From 2016 to 2019  JAMA 2020,                                     

GHOST GUNS

      Does a Gun Make Your Home Safer  Author Kaz Weida Published 6-16-2020

GUNS IN AMERICA
        A video on the state of Gun Violence in the US

      Study of 27 industrialized countries on the relationship between gun ownership and firearm related deaths.
     
      Violent Death Rages:  The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010

GUN TRAFFICKING
       News Article Re: Untraceable Guns and Crime Guns

GUN VIOLENCE - OVERVIEW STATISTICS

LAW ENFORCEMENT
         Off Roster Sale of Guns by Law Enforcement

LOST AND STOLEN GUNS

         Law Enforcement Guns Lost in Southern California

MASS SHOOTINGS
          National Council Medical Director Institute, Mass Violence in America, August 2019

COMMON MYTHS
         Defensive Gun Use: Gary Kleck Misfires Again, by Evan DeFilippis

         Does Gun Ownership Make You Safer?

         Expecting Untrained Civilians to Shoot Down Terrorists is a Recipe for More Dead Innocents


MENTAL ILLENESS AND GUN VIOLENCE
           Is Mental Illness Really Behind Most Gun Violence, Berkeley Wellness June 14, 2016

ORANGE COUNTY
     Firearm-Related Injury & Death in OC (2009-2011) OCHCA March 2014

PUBLIC OPINION

RESEARCH ON GENERAL GUN VIOLENCE ISSUES
    

STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS
        Report March 2021, The Coalition to Stop G un Violence 
    

STATE GUN LAWS
        Find your state gun laws here.

STATE LEVEL, GUN STATISTICS
        2014 Nonfatal Injury Data Now Available on CDC Wisqars

STORAGE
        Californias Are More Likely to Store Their Guns Safely,  The Trace 10/10/2019

SUICIDE

     Prevent Firearm Suicide Website-Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
   
     Means Matters:  Suicide, Guns and Public Health
     Summarizes research on the role of guns in suicide

    Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California  New England Journal of Medicine, 
    David M. Student, LL.B, SC.D, et al, 6-4, 2020

TERRORISM
      Characteristics of Lone Actors    

UNINTENTIONAL

WOMEN

YOUTH
      The Truth About Kids and Guns, Brady Center, October 2014
      The first step toward solving this public health crisis is understanding the problem— where, how,
      and why these deaths and injuries occur. This report provides that overview.

      Guns in Schools
      Trace tried to keep a record of each school shooting in 2016

GUN LOBBY AND NRA

Violence Policy Center, Blood Money II, How Gun Industry Dollars Fund the NRA, Sept. 2014


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