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View Resource 1998 National Gun Policy Survey of the National Opinion Research Center: Research Findings

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in 1999 released a final report based on the research findings of a national survey on gun policies. The 64-page study reports on topics such as the regulation of firearms, gun ownership and use, knowledge and attitudes toward guns, gun violence, and...

https://www.norc.org/PDFs/publications/SmithT_Nat_Gun_Policy...
View Resource Gun Crime in the Age Group 18-20

This report, released jointly by the US Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury, presents a statistical analysis of the extent of gun crime committed in the US by persons between the ages of 18 and 20. The findings of the report show that this age group committed the most gun homicides in 1997, were more likely to use a firearm during a crime, and possessed the largest number of...

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Archive/203924NCJRS.pdf
View Resource Gun Deaths Among Children and Teens Drop Sharply

This week, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released this major report on health in the United States, which presents the final data on 1998 US deaths and death rates. Despite its macabre title, the report does offer some positive statistics. Foremost among these is a ten percent drop in firearms deaths for teens and children compared to 1997. Other good news: "life expectancy at...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/00news/finaldeath98.htm
View Resource Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales: Midyear 1999

In March 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released this report giving an "overview of the firearm check procedures in each of the States and their interaction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) operated by the FBI." Part of the Justice Department's Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) project, the report delineates statistics on the number of applications...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ssprfs99.pdf