• Additional Information About Unintentional Shootings

Gun Violence Archive — Accidental Death Reports.

Gun Violence Archive – Accidental Injury Reports.

Violence Policy Center — Misfire: The Gun Industry’s Lack of Accountability for Defective Firearms (by the author of this journal).

Giffords Law Center – Gun Violence Statistics.

Harvard Injury Control Research Center – Research on Gun Accidents.

Everytown for Gun Safety -#Not an Accident Index.

National Gun Violence Memorial (photos).

Azrael D, Cohen J, Salhi C, Miller M. Firearm storage in gun-owning households with children: Results of a 2015 national survey. Journal of Urban Health. 2018; 95(3): 295-304.

Maggie Koerth, “What Counts as an Accident?” FiveThirtyEight (July 13, 2016).

Compendium of Data Sources

• Resources for Reporters

The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting.

Elinore J.Kaufman, Jesse E.Passman, Sara F.Jacoby, Daniel N.Holena, Mark J.Seamon, JimMacMillan, and Jessica H.Beard, “Making the news: Victim Characteristics Associated with Media Reporting on Firearm Injury,” Preventive Medicine, Volume 141, December 2020, 106275 (October, 2020).

• Study of Trauma Resulting from Gun Violence Incidents

Herrera-Escobar, Juan Pablo, de Jager, Elzerie, McCarty, Justin Conrad, Lipsitz, Stuat, Haider, Adil H., Salim, Ali, Nehra, Deepika,  Patient-reported Outcomes at 6 to 12 Months Among Survivors of Firearm Injury in the United States, Annals of Surgery (January 16, 2020).

• Firearms Deaths and Injuries Involving Children

Council On Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention Executive Committee, “Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population”  Pediatrics (November 2012).

Moreno, Megan A., “Keeping Children and Adolescents Safe from Firearms” JAMA Pedriatrics Patient Page (November, 2015).

“Children and Guns” Gun Accident Journal (July 7, 2020)

Thomsen, “Children Have More Access to Guns than Their Parents May Believe” news@Northeastern (March 24, 2021) (describing research paper linked immediately below).

Carmel Salhi, Deborah Azrael, Mathew Miller, “Parent and Adolescent Reports of Adolescent Access to Household Firearms in the United States,” Jama Network (March 9, 2021).

• Police Accidents

Associated Press Study of Police-Involved Gun Accidents

• Gun Accidents and Alcohol

Charles C. Branas, SeungHoon Han, and Douglas J. Wiebe, “Alcohol Use and Firearm Violence” 38 Epidemiological Reviews 32 (January 24, 2016).

• Historical Perspective

Manseau, Peter, “Melancholy Accidents:  Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck” (Melville House, 2016). 

• Gun Safety Policy

Yablon, Alex, “Five Low-Tech Ways Manufacturers Can Make Guns Safer,” The Trace (June 3, 2016).

“Smart Guns,”  Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

“Child Access Laws,” Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

“Gun Product Safety Notices,”  Violence Policy Center.

Miles Kohrman and Alain Stephens, Red Flag Laws, The Trace (February 18, 2020).

California Department of Justice Gun Safety Rules

A Blueprint for a U.S. Firearms Data Infrastructure

The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence

• Case Documents