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Trends for Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 1999–2018: The First 20 Years of the Permanent Brady Act Period

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Statistics

Agencies

BJS-Sponsored

Trends for Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 1999–2018: The First 20 Years of the Permanent Brady Act Period

NCJ Number

309283

Date Published

September 2024

Agencies

BJS-Sponsored

Publication Link

PDF

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020

Date Published

November 2023

Series

BJS Bulletins

Publication Type

Publication, Statistics

Agencies

BJS

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020

NCJ Number

306971

Date Published

November 2023

Agencies

BJS

Publication Link

Full Report (PDF 709K) | Data Tables (ZIP 30K)

Recognizing and Investigating Emerging Firearm Crime

Event Dates

March 2, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Transnational Corruption in Weapons Procurement in East Asia: A Case Analysis

Date Published

August 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Intervening in Gun Markets: An Experiment to Assess the Impact of Targeted Gun-Law Messaging

Date Published

March 2011

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

In the Crossfire: The Impact of Gun Violence on Public Housing Communities

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Prosecution of Federal Firearms Offenses, 2000–16

Date Published

October 2021

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

BJS-Sponsored

Promising Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence

NCJ Number

173950

Date Published

February 1999

Agencies

OJJDP

Publication Link

PDF, 2.35 MB | HTML, 987 bytes

A Comparative Analysis of Crime Guns

NCJ Number

255688

Journal

Rsf-the Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences

Date Published

October 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Link

DOC

Federal Legislation and Gun Markets: How Much Have Recent Reforms of the Federal Firearms Licensing System Reduced Criminal Gun Suppliers

Date Published

2002

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Spot the Shot

Date Published

January 2007

Publication Type

Report (Technical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Armed Criminal in America - A Survey of Incarcerated Felons

Date Published

1985

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

And Nobody Can Get You Out: The Impact of a Mandatory Prison Sentence for the Illegal Carrying of a Firearm on the Use of Firearms and on the Administration of Criminal Justice in Boston

Date Published

1976

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Nature and Circumstances of Defensive Gun Use: A Content Analysis of Interpersonal Conflict Situations Involving Criminal Offenders

Date Published

March 2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Armed Criminal in America

Date Published

1986

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Drugs and Guns Among Inner-City High School Students

Date Published

1994

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored, NIJ-Sponsored

Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: The Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of New Handguns to Criminals

Date Published

November 2005

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Juvenile Gun Violence and Gun Markets in Boston

Date Published

March 1997

Series

NIJ Research Preview

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Sources of Firearm Acquisition Among a Sample of Inner-City Youths: Research Results and Policy Implications

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prosecution of Federal Firearms Offenses, 2000–16

NCJ Number

254520

Date Published

October 2021

Agencies

BJS-Sponsored

Publication Link

Full Report (PDF 1.1M)

The Impact of Neighborhood Status on Imprisonment for Firearm Offenses

NCJ Number

252451

Journal

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 32(4): 383-400

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Link

HTML

The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use

NCJ Number

253055

Journal

Journal of Urban Health

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Link

HTML