- Description
This study is the first to explore the association between gun-related characteristics and gun theft victimization. The study shows that owning many guns, owning guns for protection, carrying guns, and storing guns unsafely are associated with having guns stolen. Storing guns in the car also appears to increase the risk. Owning many guns appears to be a risk factor for gun theft, perhaps because burglars see firearms as loot.
- Published by
- Springer Nature
- Funded by
- Fund for A Safer Future
- Joyce Foundation
- Issue areas
- Crime and Safety
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- Title
- Whose Guns are Stolen? The Epidemiology of Gun Theft Victims
- Publication date
- 2017-04-10
- Publication year
- 2017
- Authors
- David Hemenway , Deborah Azrael , Mattew Miller
- Copyright holder(s)
- Springer Nature
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- URL
- https://gunviolence.issuelab.org/resource/whose-guns-are-stolen-the-epidemiology-of-gun-theft-victims.html
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