Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: Faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings

Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 365-372

  Chapman, S ^a   Alpers, P ^a   Agho, K ^a   Jones, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

AUSTRALIA; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SUICIDE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33846131918     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.013714     Document Type: Article

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