Patterns of gun owner beliefs about firearm risk in relation to firearm storage: a latent class analysis using the 2019 National Firearms Survey.

Carmel SalhiDeborah AzraelMatthew Miller

Published in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2020)

Our LCA is a first step towards better understanding variation in patterns of beliefs among gun owners regarding the risks and benefits of firearms. Our results suggest that messaging aimed at promoting safer firearms storage might benefit from the empirically derived typologies we identify.

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