TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Firearm purchasing and storage during the COVID-19 pandemic
JO  - Injury prevention
A1  - Lyons, Vivian H.
A1  - Haviland, Miriam J.
A1  - Azrael, Deborah R.
A1  - Adhia, Avanti
A1  - Bellenger, M. Alex
A1  - Ellyson, Alice
A1  - Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali
A1  - Rivara, Frederick P.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - To better understand motivations behind purchase and storage of firearms during the COVID-19 pandemic, we used Amazon Mechanical Turk to conduct an online survey of individuals who did and did not purchase a firearm since 1 January 2020 in response to COVID-19. The survey was fielded between 1 and 5 May 2020. We asked about motivations for purchase, changes in storage practices and concern for themselves or others due to COVID-19. There were 1105 survey respondents. Most people who purchased a firearm did so to protect themselves from people. Among respondents who had purchased a firearm in response to COVID-19 without prior household firearm ownership, 39.7% reported at least one firearm was stored unlocked. Public health efforts to improve firearm-related safety during COVID-19 should consider increasing access to training and framing messages around the concerns motivating new firearm purchase.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043872
ID  - ref1
ER  -