Lethality of Civilian Active Shooter Incidents With and Without Semiautomatic Rifles in the United States

Jager et al presents a study of the lethality of civilian active shooter incidents with and without semiautomatic rifles in the US. Semiautomatic rifle have been used in some of the largest active shooter incident in the US history. The weapons were banned in 1994 under the federal assault weapons b...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2018-09, Vol.320 (10), p.1034-1035
Main Authors: de Jager, Elzerie, Goralnick, Eric, McCarty, Justin C, Hashmi, Zain G, Jarman, Molly P, Haider, Adil H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Casualties
Firearms
Firearms - classification
Firearms - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Lethality
Letter
Letters
Mass Casualty Incidents - statistics & numerical data
Research Letter
Rifles
Shootings
United States - epidemiology
Weapons
Wounds, Gunshot - mortality
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Summary:Jager et al presents a study of the lethality of civilian active shooter incidents with and without semiautomatic rifles in the US. Semiautomatic rifle have been used in some of the largest active shooter incident in the US history. The weapons were banned in 1994 under the federal assault weapons ban but were reintroduced to the public marketplace in 2004. Here, the authors compared the number of persons wounded, killed, and either wounded or killed during active shooter incidents with and without semiautomatic rifles.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.11009