Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Household Firearm Ownership

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Aug 1;7(8):e2428027. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.28027.

Alexander Testa¹, Karyn Fu², Dylan B Jackson³, Daniel C Semenza^{4

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¹ Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston.
² Rice University, Houston, Texas.
³ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.
⁵ Department of Urban-Global Public Health, School of Public Health, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
⁶ New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston.

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This survey study examines exposure to abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction during childhood and likelihood of gun ownership in adulthood.