Garen J. Wintemute and Barbara E. Claire are with the Violence Prevention Research Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento. Shannon Frattaroli, Katherine A. Vittes, and Daniel W. Webster are with the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Feb;104(2):e113-8. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301484. Epub 2013 Dec 12.
We evaluated a law enforcement initiative to screen respondents to domestic violence restraining orders for firearm ownership or possession and recover their firearms.
The initiative was implemented in San Mateo and Butte counties in California from 2007 through 2010. We used descriptive methods to evaluate the screening process and recovery effort in each county, relying on records for individual cases.
Screening relied on an archive of firearm transactions, court records, and petitioner interviews; no single source was adequate. Screening linked 525 respondents (17.7%) in San Mateo County to firearms; 405 firearms were recovered from 119 (22.7%) of them. In Butte County, 88 (31.1%) respondents were linked to firearms; 260 firearms were recovered from 45 (51.1%) of them. Nonrecovery occurred most often when orders were never served or respondents denied having firearms. There were no reports of serious violence or injury.
Recovering firearms from persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders is possible. We have identified design and implementation changes that may improve the screening process and the yield from recovery efforts. Larger implementation trials are needed.
我们评估了一项执法倡议，即对家庭暴力限制令的被申请人进行枪支拥有或持有情况筛查，并收回其枪支。
该倡议于 2007 年至 2010 年在加利福尼亚州圣马特奥县和巴特县实施。我们使用描述性方法评估了每个县的筛查过程和回收工作，依赖于对个别案件的记录。
筛查依赖于枪支交易档案、法庭记录和申请人访谈；没有单一的来源是足够的。在圣马特奥县，筛查将 525 名（17.7%）被申请人与枪支联系起来；从 119 名（22.7%）被申请人中回收了 405 支枪支。在巴特县，88 名（31.1%）被申请人与枪支有关联；从 45 名（51.1%）被申请人中回收了 260 支枪支。最常见的情况是当限制令从未送达或被申请人否认拥有枪支时，枪支无法被收回。没有关于严重暴力或伤害的报告。
从受家庭暴力限制令约束的人手中收回枪支是可行的。我们已经确定了可能改进筛查过程和回收工作效果的设计和实施变更。需要进行更大规模的实施试验。
