@article{ref1,
title="State intimate partner violence-related firearm laws and intimate partner homicide rates in the United States, 1991 to 2015",
journal="Annals of internal medicine",
year="2017",
author="Díez, Carolina and Kurland, Rachel P. and Rothman, Emily Faith and Bair-Merritt, Megan and Fleegler, Eric and Xuan, Ziming and Galea, Sandro and Ross, Craig S. and Kalesan, Bindu and Goss, Kristin A. and Siegel, Michael",
volume="167",
number="8",
pages="536-543",
abstract="BACKGROUND: To prevent intimate partner homicide (IPH), some states have adopted laws restricting firearm possession by intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders. &quot;Possession&quot; laws prohibit the possession of firearms by these offenders. &quot;Relinquishment&quot; laws prohibit firearm possession and also explicitly require offenders to surrender their firearms. Few studies have assessed the effect of these policies. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To study the association between state IPV-related firearm laws and IPH rates over a 25-year period (1991 to 2015). <br><br>DESIGN: Panel study. SETTING: United States, 1991 to 2015. PARTICIPANTS: Homicides committed by intimate partners, as identified in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, Supplementary Homicide Reports. MEASUREMENTS: IPV-related firearm laws (predictor) and annual, state-specific, total, and firearm-related IPH rates (outcome). <br><br>RESULTS: State laws that prohibit persons subject to IPV-related restraining orders from possessing firearms and also require them to relinquish firearms in their possession were associated with 9.7% lower total IPH rates (95% CI, 3.4% to 15.5% reduction) and 14.0% lower firearm-related IPH rates (CI, 5.1% to 22.0% reduction) than in states without these laws. Laws that did not explicitly require relinquishment of firearms were associated with a non-statistically significant 6.6% reduction in IPH rates. LIMITATIONS: The model did not control for variation in implementation of the laws. Causal interpretation is limited by the observational and ecological nature of the analysis. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that state laws restricting firearm possession by persons deemed to be at risk for perpetrating intimate partner abuse may save lives. Laws requiring at-risk persons to surrender firearms already in their possession were associated with lower IPH rates. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-4819",
doi="10.7326/M16-2849",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M16-2849"
}