ArticlePreventive medicine reports2023
Identity, experience, and threat: Assessing key correlates of firearm ownership and related behaviors in a representative sample of five US States.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Understanding firearm-related suicide mortality in the national violent death reporting system: A study of circumstantial social determinants.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Prevalence, correlates, and patterns of leaving firearms unattended in vehicles among US firearm owners.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Perceived neighborhood safety and firearm secure storage: findings from the 2024 behavioral risk factor surveillance system.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Study design and protocol for a randomized clinical trial investigating a brief fear of uncertainty-focused intervention as an adjunct to project safe guard for military personnel.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- The Role of Family-Level Factors in Firearm Storage Practices.Journal of community health · 2025Review
- Political affiliation moderates the link between gun violence exposure and firearm behaviors via perceptions of utility, safety, and threat.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- How do active duty army personnel view the relationships between firearms and suicide? The role of sociopsychological factors, firearm ownership status, and lifetime history of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Perceived neighborhood crime and gun carrying behavior: examining the role of a history of traumatic brain injury.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- Support for age related firearm policies among Black American firearm owners: examining the role of children in the home.BMC pediatrics · 2025Observational
- In-person and media gun violence exposure in the United States: prevalence and disparities in a nationally representative, cross-sectional sample of adults.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Lifetime and Past-Year Defensive Gun Use.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Correlates of dangerous firearm storage among a representative sample of firearm owners across nine states.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2024Article
- Associations Between Perceived Threats and Firearm Behaviors Among U.S. Adults.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Storage of firearms in vehicles: findings from a sample of firearm owners in nine U.S. states.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Differences in reasons for secure and unsecure firearm storage: Results from a representative cross-sectional study of nine states.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine psychosocial, experiential, and demographic correlates of firearm ownership, carrying, and storage methods. We used a representative survey of 3,510 people living in five US states (Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Texas) conducted in 2022. Individuals provided information on past experiences with firearms, perceptions of threat and neighborhood safety, discrimination, and tolerance of uncertainty alongside demographic items. The analysis was conducted in November 2022. Past experiences with firearms and prior victimization are associated with increased firearm ownership and carrying practices. Threat sensitivity is associated with owning more guns while poorer perceptions of neighborhood safety correspond with owning fewer guns but greater risk for unsafe storage practices like storing a loaded gun in a closet or drawer. Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with owning fewer guns and lower risk for carrying outside of the home but greater risk for unsafe storage. Prior experience of discrimination is associated with risk for carrying firearms outside of the home. Demographic characteristics related to sex, rurality, military service, and political conservatism predict risky firearm-related behaviors related to firearm ownership, carrying frequency, and unsecure storage. Taken together, we find firearm ownership and risky firearm behaviors (e.g. carrying, unsafe storage) are more prominent among groups such as politically conservative males living in rural areas while also being influenced by threatening experiences, uncertainty, and perceptions of safety.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.