Center for Gun Policy and Research

Legal Issues
Legal Issues
The Center monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of major gun laws, including those related to: "Saturday night special" handguns; handgun registration and licensing; child access prevention; and minimum purchase and possession age. More
Gun Trafficking
Gun Trafficking
The Center is committed to studying and reducing illegal firearm trafficking. The Center's work in this area focuses on the role of gun dealers, straw purchases, and firearm theft in the transfer of guns from legal to illegal markets. More
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence
The Center studies policies and behaviors related to gun violence perpetrated by domestic violence offenders. Center research seeks to identify whether current legal practices effectively keep guns out of the hands of batterers. More
Keeping Guns from Youth
Keeping Guns from Youth
The Center studies policies and behaviors related to gun access and carrying among youth. Center research focuses on trends and prevention of youth homicide, suicide, violence, and unintentional injury by firearms. More

Center Publications

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research conducts important investigations into the effects and efficacy of firearm policies from a public health perspective. From time to time, our faculty compose informative fact sheets and policy briefs to help translate academic findings to knowledge and strategy for public access.

The following is a selection of gun policy resources developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Publications are in PDF format, which must be viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The software is available for free download at the Adobe website.

If you experience any difficulties, or to request print copies of publications which are not available through the website, please contact the Center.

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Highlighted Research

J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2010 Jan;19(1):93-8.
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
Am J Public Health. 2010 Oct;100(10):1856-60.
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
J Urban Health. 2010 May;87(3):352-64.
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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