未击中目标：回购枪支与涉致命事故枪支的比较

Missing the target: a comparison of buyback and fatality related guns.

作者信息

Kuhn E M, Nie C L, O'Brien M E, Withers R L, Wintemute G J, Hargarten S W

机构信息

Firearm Injury Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA.

出版信息

Inj Prev. 2002 Jun;8(2):143-6. doi: 10.1136/ip.8.2.143.

DOI:10.1136/ip.8.2.143

PMID:12120834

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1730846/

Abstract

OBJECTIVES

To determine whether the firearms recovered in buyback programs in a large urban community are the types most closely associated with firearm fatalities in the same geographic area.

METHODS

The type, caliber, and manufacturer of 941 handguns recovered in Milwaukee County 1994-96 buyback programs were compared with 369 homicide related and 125 suicide related handguns used in Milwaukee during 1994-97.

RESULTS

Buyback handguns differed substantially from those used in homicide and suicide. One third of buyback handguns were semiautomatic pistols versus two thirds of homicide related handguns (p<0.001) and 40% of suicide related handguns (p=NS). Over 75% of buyback handguns were small caliber compared with 24% of homicide and 32% of suicide handguns (p<0.001). The top two manufacturers of buyback handguns represented 30% of these guns but only 5% of fatality related handguns (p<0.001). Companies currently out of business manufactured 15% of buyback handguns versus 7% of fatality related handguns (p<0.001).

CONCLUSIONS

Handguns recovered in buyback programs are not the types most commonly linked to firearm homicides and suicides. Although buyback programs may increase awareness of firearm violence, limited resources for firearm injury prevention may be better spent in other ways.

摘要

目的

确定在一个大型城市社区的回购项目中回收的枪支是否是与同一地理区域内枪支致死最密切相关的类型。

方法

将1994 - 1996年密尔沃基县回购项目中回收的941把手枪的类型、口径和制造商与1994 - 1997年密尔沃基市发生的369起与凶杀案相关和125起与自杀案相关的手枪进行比较。

结果

回购的手枪与用于凶杀和自杀的手枪有很大不同。回购手枪中有三分之一是半自动手枪，而与凶杀案相关的手枪中有三分之二是半自动手枪（p<0.001），与自杀案相关的手枪中有40%是半自动手枪（p=无显著差异）。超过75%的回购手枪是小口径的，而与凶杀案相关的手枪中这一比例为24%，与自杀案相关的手枪中为32%（p<0.001）。回购手枪的前两大制造商占这些枪支的30%，但在与致死相关的手枪中仅占5%（p<0.001）。目前已停业的公司生产了15%的回购手枪，而在与致死相关的手枪中这一比例为7%（p<0.001）。