Gun retailers as storage partners for suicide prevention: what barriers need to be overcome?
Accident Prevention
/ legislation & jurisprudence
Accidents, Home
/ prevention & control
Cooperative Behavior
Family Characteristics
Firearms
/ statistics & numerical data
Humans
Interinstitutional Relations
Law Enforcement
Northwestern United States
Protective Devices
/ statistics & numerical data
Safety
Southwestern United States
Wounds, Gunshot
/ prevention & control
Suicide Prevention
firearm
legislation
suicide/self?harm
surveys
Journal
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
ISSN: 1475-5785
Titre abrégé: Inj Prev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9510056
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2019
09 2019
Historique:
received:
12
12
2017
revised:
12
01
2018
accepted:
18
01
2018
pubmed:
14
2
2018
medline:
17
3
2020
entrez:
14
2
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Safe storage of guns outside the household while someone is at risk for suicide is important for suicide prevention. Some gun retailers offer temporary firearm storage as a community resource. Others may be willing if perceived barriers can be addressed. We invited all gun retailers in eight Mountain West states to respond to a questionnaire about the barriers they perceive in offering temporary, voluntary gun storage for community members. Ninety-five retailers responded (25% response rate). Fifty-eight percent believed federal laws make it harder to store guns and 25% perceived state laws to be obstacles. Over 60% cited legal liability in storing and returning guns as barriers. Other important barriers included cost, space and logistical issues of drop off and pick up. Strategies to reduce legal and other barriers will need to be addressed to better engage gun retailers as a community resource for safe gun storage.
Identifiants
pubmed: 29436398
pii: injuryprev-2017-042700
doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042700
pmc: PMC6081260
mid: NIHMS950962
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
i5-i8Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R21 MH105827
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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