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Firearm Injury Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

The Firearm Injury Center conducts and reports on firearm injury surveillance in Wisconsin. Its website contains a glossary of handguns and handgun safety terms as well as reports on drop tests of specific firearms.

Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Focuses primarily on the interdisciplinary study of the causes and etiology of injury and its application for the development and evaluation of prevention and intervention strategies and policy. A multidisciplinary approach is taken for all research and training activities.

University of Pennsylvania, Firearm Injury Control at Penn (FICAP)
Works to create safer communities through the systematic reduction of firearm injury and its repercussions to the individual, family, and society.  FICAP seeks to achieve its mission by stimulating firearm injury research, supporting efforts to translate research findings into practice, and broadly disseminating information to policymakers.

Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP)
The VPRP is an organized research program of the University of California, Davis that addresses the causes, nature, and prevention of violence. Numerous firearm injury prevention research papers are available on-line from this site.

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