Leah Roberts, Mark H Hoofnagle, Brady Bushover, Ariana N Gobaud, Christina A Mehranbod, Carolyn Fish, Christopher N Morrison
IMPORTANCE: Interstate gun flow has critical implications for gun violence prevention, as gun transfers across state lines can undermine local gun control policies. OBJECTIVE: To identify possible gun trafficking routes along interstate highways in the US. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This repeated-measures, ecological, cross-sectional study used data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019, to examine associations between interstate connections via 13 highways that each spanned at least 1000 miles and interstate traced gun transfer counts for the 48 contiguous United States...
April 1, 2024: JAMA Network Open