Open AccessEffect of mass shootings on gun sales—A 20-year perspective
Author(s) -
Rachael A. Callcut,
Anamaria J. Robles,
Lucy Z. Kornblith,
Rebecca Plevin,
Matthew W. Mell
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.25
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 2163-0763
pISSN - 2163-0755
DOI - 10.1097/ta.0000000000002399
Subject(s) - gun control , demography , confidence interval , forensic engineering , advertising , engineering , political science , business , statistics , mathematics , law , sociology
Granular data on gun sales has been historically difficult to obtain. In 2016, California (CA) made monthly data from 1996 to 2015 publically available. Control charts are a method to analyze how a process changes over time in response to nonroutine events. We utilized this technique to study the impact of US mass shootings on CA gun sales.