Citation

Loomis DP, Marshall SW, Ta ML. Am. J. Public Health 2005; 95(5): 830-832.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology, CB-7435 UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2003.033535

PMID

15855460

PMCID

PMC1449263

Abstract

This population-based case-control study of North Carolina workplaces evaluated the hypothesis that employers' policies allowing firearms in the workplace may increase workers' risk of homicide. Workplaces where guns were permitted were about 5 times as likely to experience a homicide as those where all weapons were prohibited (adjusted odds ratio=4.81; 95% confidence interval=1.70, 13.65). The association remained after adjustment for other risk factors. The findings suggest that policies allowing guns in the workplace might increase workers' risk of homicide.