All of the authors are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr;108(4):532-537. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304262. Epub 2018 Feb 22.
To examine gun storage practices and factors influencing those practices among gun owners.
We conducted a nationally representative online survey of US gun owners (n = 1444) in 2016 to assess gun storage practices and attitudes, factors influencing storage practices, and groups that might effectively communicate regarding safe storage. We generated descriptive statistics by using cross-tabulations and used logistic regression to estimate characteristics that influenced safe storage practices.
Forty-six percent of gun owners reported safely storing all of their guns. Factors associated with higher odds of reporting safe storage were having a child in the home (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.03, 2.03), only owning handguns (AOR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.24, 2.73), and reporting that storage decisions were influenced by a gun safety course (AOR = 2.05; 95% CI = 1.54, 2.74) or discussions with family members (AOR = 1.39; 95% CI = 1.05, 1.86). Gun owners ranked law enforcement, hunting or outdoors groups, active-duty military, and the National Rifle Association as most effective in communicating safe storage practices.
Public health campaigns to promote safe gun storage should consider partnering with groups that garner respect among gun owners for their experience with safe use of guns.
研究枪支存放实践以及枪支拥有者影响这些实践的因素。
我们于 2016 年对美国枪支拥有者（n=1444）进行了一项全国性的在线调查，以评估枪支存放做法和态度、影响存放做法的因素，以及可能就安全储存进行有效沟通的群体。我们通过交叉表生成描述性统计数据，并使用逻辑回归估计影响安全储存做法的特征。
46%的枪支拥有者报告安全存放了所有枪支。与报告安全储存的几率较高相关的因素包括家中有孩子（调整后的优势比[OR] = 1.44；95%置信区间[CI] = 1.03，2.03）、仅拥有手枪（OR = 1.84；95% CI = 1.24，2.73），以及报告储存决策受到枪支安全课程（OR = 2.05；95% CI = 1.54，2.74）或与家庭成员讨论（OR = 1.39；95% CI = 1.05，1.86）的影响。枪支拥有者将执法部门、狩猎或户外活动团体、现役军人和全国步枪协会列为最有效地传达安全储存做法的群体。
促进安全枪支储存的公共卫生运动应考虑与在安全使用枪支方面获得枪支拥有者尊重的群体合作。
