@article{ref1,
title="Reexamining the association between child access prevention gun laws and unintentional shooting deaths of children",
journal="Pediatrics",
year="2000",
author="Webster, Daniel W. and Starnes, M.",
volume="106",
number="6",
pages="1466-1469",
abstract="CONTEXT: A previous study estimated that child access prevention (CAP) laws, which hold adults criminally liable for unsafe firearm storage in the environment of children, were associated with a 23% decline in unintentional firearm mortality rates among children. OBJECTIVE: To reassess the effects of CAP laws and more fully examine the consistency of the estimated law effects across states. DESIGN: A pooled time-series study of unintentional firearm mortality among children from 1979 through 1997. Setting. The 50 states and the District of Columbia. PARTICIPANTS: All children <15 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates of unintentional deaths attributable to firearms. RESULTS: When the effects of all 15 state CAP laws enacted before 1998 were aggregated, the laws were associated with a 17% decline unintentional firearm death rates among children. The laws' effects were not equal across states. Florida's CAP law was associated with a 51% decline; however, there were no statistically significant aggregate or state-specific law effects in the other 14 states with CAP laws. CONCLUSIONS: Florida's CAP law-1 of only 3 such laws allowing felony prosecution of violators-appears to have significantly reduced unintentional firearm deaths to children. However, there is no evidence of effects in the other 14 states with CAP laws. />&lt;15 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates of unintentional deaths attributable to firearms. RESULTS: When the effects of all 15 state CAP laws enacted before 1998 were aggregated, the laws were associated with a 17% decline unintentional firearm death rates among children. The laws' effects were not equal across states. Florida's CAP law was associated with a 51% decline; however, there were no statistically significant aggregate or state-specific law effects in the other 14 states with CAP laws. CONCLUSIONS: Florida's CAP law-1 of only 3 such laws allowing felony prosecution of violators-appears to have significantly reduced unintentional firearm deaths to children. However, there is no evidence of effects in the other 14 states with CAP laws.",
language="",
issn="0031-4005",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}