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NCJ Number:	157875

Title:	Homicide, Handguns, and the Crime Gun Hypothesis: Firearms Used in Fatal Shootings of Law Enforcement Officers, 1980 to 1989

Journal:	American Journal of Public Health Volume:84 Issue:4 Dated:(April 1994) Pages:561-564

Author(s):	G J Wintemute

Date Published:	1994

Page Count:	4

Document:	HTML\|PDF

Publisher:	http://www.apha.org/

Type:	Research (Applied/Empirical)

Format:	Article

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This study examined the use of handguns owned by civilians in the shooting deaths of law enforcement officers between 1980 and 1989.

Abstract:	The analysis was based on life tables generated for each year's cohort of new handguns to estimate gun-years at risk, analogous to person-years, for rate and relative risk calculation. Of 735 firearm homicides of police officers during the study period, 435 were committed with 428 civilian-owned handguns. Revolvers were used more often than pistols. For both types of handgun, .22-caliber weapons were least often used in police homicides, while .32-caliber pistols and .38-caliber revolvers were used most often. Forty-six percent of the handguns included in this sample had a barrel length of three inches or less. U.S. firearms manufacturers produced 82 percent of the handguns for which a manufacturer could be identified at all. 1 figure, 1 table, and 24 references

Main Term(s):	Police deaths

Index Term(s):	Criminology; Firearms deaths; Statistics

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