Violence Prevention Research Program, UC Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
J Urban Health. 2010 Sep;87(5):865-78. doi: 10.1007/s11524-010-9489-6.
Firearm-related violence is a significant public health and public safety problem for cities in the USA, and licensed firearm retailers are an important source of the guns used in that violence. Using a scripted telephone interview, we screened a sample of licensed retailers in California to assess their willingness to participate in the surrogate or "straw" purchase of a handgun; such purchases are illegal under federal law. Of 149 retailers who provided a response, 30 (20.1%) agreed to participate. In multivariate analysis, pawnbrokers were more likely to agree than were gun dealers (odds ratio 6.58, 95% confidence interval 1.99-21.71). Sales of handguns that were later subjected to ownership tracing (a proxy measure for a gun's use in crime) were not more frequent among retailers who agreed to participate than among others, and other findings were unexpected as well.
枪支暴力是美国城市面临的一个重大公共卫生和公共安全问题，而持照枪支零售商是此类暴力事件中所使用枪支的重要来源。我们采用预设电话访谈的方式，对加利福尼亚州的部分持照零售商进行了筛选，以评估他们参与代理（或“替购”）手枪购买的意愿；根据联邦法律，此类购买是违法的。在对 149 家做出回应的零售商进行分析后发现，有 30 家（20.1%）表示同意参与。多变量分析显示，与枪支经销商相比，当铺老板更有可能表示同意（优势比 6.58，95%置信区间 1.99-21.71）。同意参与调查的零售商与其他零售商相比，后来进行所有权追踪（犯罪中枪支使用的代理衡量标准）的手枪销售频率并没有更高，其他发现也出人意料。
