Weill Cornell Medicine: Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws Reduce Firearm Suicides

A new study found that laws temporarily restricting access to firearms for individuals at high risk of harming themselves or others reduced firearm suicides without a shift to other suicide methods, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

They concluded that the laws reduced firearm suicides by nearly four incidents per 100,000 population. That translated to an estimated 675 suicides prevented across the four states between the year the laws were passed and the following year. Non-firearm suicide rates did not change.

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