Journal of epidemiology and community health
Ghost gun recovery and firearm deaths in California, 2014-2023.
Jemar R Bather, Amanda I Mauri, Zoe Lindenfeld, Saba Rouhani, Runhan Chen, Jinrui Fang, José A Pagán, Diana Silver, Melody S Goodman
Published: 202610.1136/jech-2025-225202
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether ghost gun recovery rates are significantly associated with firearm mortality rates in the following year across California's 58 counties from 2014 to 2023. METHODS: We obtained yearly county-level data on ghost gun…
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