Intentional self-harm with a firearm comprised 24,438 of 48,312 (50.6%) U.S. suicide
deaths in 2018.
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,CDC. Multiple Cause of Death 1999-2018 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2020. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999–2019, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative. https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html. Published 2020. Accessed March 28, 2020.
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However, information about the type of firearm used in firearm death is limited,
inhibiting the evaluation of policies to combat this growing public health problem.
Firearm laws are often narrow, applying to certain firearms. For example, as of 2020,
7 of the 12 states with a permit-to-purchase law only require a permit for handguns.
Research evaluating the impact of firearm policy on firearm death using the National
Vital Statistics System (NVSS) has typically evaluated all firearm deaths regardless
of firearm type.
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Mortality in the United States, 2018.
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The saliency of firearm policy may only be present for a subset of those deaths.
The estimated impact of these policies would be notably more precise and less biased
if firearm type were more frequently classified and available to researchers. This
study explores geographic and temporal variation in the proportion of firearm suicides
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