NIH R01 · 2024
PROJECT ABSTRACT Firearm violence is associated with access to firearms at both the individual and ecological levels. Preventing firearm access by those at significant risk of violence is a logical strategy to reduce firearm homicide, firearm suicide, and nonfatal firearm violence. Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws provide a civil court option for temporarily removing firearms from, and preventing purchase by, high-risk individuals. To date there are no empirically developed guidelines on how law enforcement agencies are to implement ERPO, including firearm removal from newly prohibited individuals. This project will develop ERPO implementation guidelines through the use of…
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