Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Welcome

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research is engaged in original scholarly research, policy analysis, and agenda-setting public discourse. Our goal is to bring public health expertise and perspectives to the complex policy issues related to gun violence prevention.

An important part of the Center's mission is to serve as an objective and informative resource for the news media, thereby providing the public with accurate information about gun injuries, prevention strategies, and policies.

Special News Highlight 

President Obama calls for improvements to our nation’s system for checking the background of gun purchasers to prevent criminals, drug abusers, and persons with serious mental illnesses from obtaining firearms. Click here to read the full op-ed piece in the Arizona Daily Star.

Highlights

• New York Times - Room For Debate: Taking, and Restoring, the Rights of Felons
• New York Times: Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun Rights
• Washington Post: Federal appeals court panel rules in favor of D.C. Gun Law
• CNN Letter to the Editor: How streetwise intervention cuts crime
• CNN Heroes: Interrupting the cycle of teen violence

Archive

Highlighted Research

Women with protective orders report failure to remove firearms from their abusive partners

Shootings are the most common method by which women are killed by an intimate partner in the United States. More

Fatally flawed study yields misleading results

A widely publicized study of the relationship between gun shows and gun violence is being cited in debates about the regulation of gun shows and gun commerce. We believe the study is fatally flawed. More

Risk factors for criminal use of handguns recently purchased under conditions that suggest trafficking

Our findings should help law enforcement's illegal gun units to consider which of the thousands of crime gun traces to follow up with an investigation of possible trafficking. More

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