The Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy              
 

July 2022

The Consortium for Risked-Based Firearm Policy
 
 

GOOD AFTERNOON,

 

This past July, Steven Dettelbach was sworn in as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He became only the second Senate-confirmed ATF director since 2006, when Senate confirmation first became a requirement. Nominations for the position have proven difficult to gain Senate approval, leaving the ATF without a permanent director for seven years.

 

Dettelbach’s confirmation gives the ATF an opportunity to prioritize its work to reduce gun trafficking and the proliferation of ghost guns. It also places him in a unique position to help implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and to enforce other critical measures to prevent gun violence.
 
 

NEW RESOURCES
 
 
  • Everytown’s report, The Economic Cost of Gun Violence.
  • The Network’s report, Measuring Safety: Gender-Based Violence in Illinois.
  • Texas House Committee report on the Robb Elementary Shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
 
 
 

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
 
 

• Tracking the Effects of the Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling – The Trace
• Texas’ Complex Relationship with Firearms: Leading America in Gun Sales, but with a Declining Gun Ownership Rate – The Texas Tribune
• The Fight to Curb Gun Violence without Inflaming Racial Biases – CNN
• The Staggering Scope of U.S. Gun Deaths Goes Far Beyond Mass Shootings – The Washington Post
• Most Gun Owners Favor Modest Restrictions but Deeply Distrust Government, Poll Finds – NPR
 
 
 

SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES
 
 

Alpert HR, Slater ME, Yoon YH, Chen CM, Winstanley N, & Esser MB. (2022). Alcohol consumption and 15 causes of fatal injuries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.03.025
 
 

Betz ME, Brandspigel S, Barnard LM, Johnson RL, Knoepke CE, Peterson RA, Rivara FP, & Rowhani-Rahbar A. (2022). Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: A survey of law enforcement agencies in two states. Injury Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-022-00389-3
 
 

Gause EL, Conrick K, Moore M, Rowhani-Rahbar A, & Rivara FP. (2022). Survey of Washington clinicians’ willingness to use and preferences related to extreme risk protection orders. Preventive Medicine Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101883
 
 

Jewett PI, Gangnon RE, Borowsky IW, Peterson J, Areba EM, Kiragu A, & Densley J. (2022). US Mass public shootings since Columbine: Victims per incident by race and ethnicity of the perpetrator. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107176
 
 

Kaplan MS, C Mueller-Williams A, Goldman-Mellor S, & Sakai-Bizmark R. (2022). Changing trends in suicide mortality and firearm involvement among black young adults in the United States, 1999-2019. Archives of Suicide Research: Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2098889
 
 

Laqueur HS, Smirniotis C, McCort C, & Wintemute GJ. (2022). Machine learning analysis of handgun transactions to predict firearm suicide risk. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.21041
 
 

Thomas AC, Wintemute G, Nathens AB, Subacius H, Stey AM, Bilimoria KY, & Campbell BT. (2022). The association between gun shows and firearm injuries: An analysis of 259 gun shows across 23 US cities. Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107110
 
 
 
 
 

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