TY - JOUR
T1 - Keeping guns out of the hands of abusers
T2 - Handgun purchases and restraining orders
AU - Vittes, Katherine A.
AU - Sorenson, Susan B.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/5/1
Y1 - 2008/5/1
N2 - Persons under certain domestic violence restraining orders are prohibited by federal law from purchasing and possessing a firearm. We used administrative data from California to link 794426 restraining orders with 1388724 handgun purchase applications. We found that restrained persons were not a less law-abiding group in general, but they appeared to be repeatedly or serially abusive to intimate partners, and their handgun purchase rates were highest after their restraining orders expired.
AB - Persons under certain domestic violence restraining orders are prohibited by federal law from purchasing and possessing a firearm. We used administrative data from California to link 794426 restraining orders with 1388724 handgun purchase applications. We found that restrained persons were not a less law-abiding group in general, but they appeared to be repeatedly or serially abusive to intimate partners, and their handgun purchase rates were highest after their restraining orders expired.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2007.124115
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2007.124115
M3 - Article
C2 - 18381985
AN - SCOPUS:43049159599
VL - 98
SP - 828
EP - 831
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
SN - 0090-0036
IS - 5
ER -