ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2021
Motivations for firearm possession and storage practices among urban young adults: differences between parents and non-parents.
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- A Qualitative Examination of Storage Practices of Women Firearm Owners in New Jersey and Ohio to Inform Suicide Prevention.AJPM focus · 2026Article
- Firearm injury and young children: a critical review.BMC pediatrics · 2025Review
- Association between community violence exposure and teen parental firearm ownership: data from a nationally representative study.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Associations between experiencing violence, owning a firearm for protection and firearm storage: a nationally representative analysis of US caregivers of teens.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2024Article
- Understanding factors associated with firearm possession: Examining differences between male and female adolescents and emerging adults seeking emergency department care.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Firearm purchasing during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in households with teens: a national study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
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objectivesTo evaluate motivations for firearm possession among urban young adults and determine if differences emerge between parents and non-parents, and to identify if storage practices differed according to motivation for firearm possession and parenting status.
methodsWe used cross-sectional data among young adults seeking urban emergency department treatment at Hurley Medical Center between 2017 and 2018. Our analyses, completed in 2020, included 194 firearm-possessing young adults, 95 of whom were young parents.
resultsFirearm-possessing parents were more likely to have a firearm for protection, than for any other motivation, compared with firearm-possessing non-parents (OR: 2.38, 95% CI 1.06 to 5.46). A significant interaction between parenting status and motivation for possession indicated the association between protective motivations and locked storage was significantly different between parents and non-parents, whereby there was a decreased odds of locked storage among non-parents who were motivated to possess a firearm for protection compared with any other motivation, but this association did not exist for parents (interaction OR=10.57, p<0.05).
conclusionParental motivation for possessing a firearm most often lies in the desire to protect families. This motivation, however, does not necessitate unsafe storage.
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