A key barrier to addressing firearm injury in the United States is the lack of timely data. Through a new and nearly real-time system developed at the University of Michigan, injury prevention...
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Media Mention: Detailed data on Michigan’s red flag law gun seizure cases gets sparse
Lansing — A change in the way court systems are reporting Extreme Risk Protection Order data makes it difficult to assess what specific circumstances across the state are triggering the confiscation...
Media Mention: New England students utilize Sandy Hook Promise tools for safety
One day before prom, in an advanced placement government classroom at Oakdale High School southeast of Frederick, Maryland, a group of students gathered to film the school’s morning announcement....
Media Mention: Preventing tragedy: How communities can use extreme risk protection orders to save lives
Protecting every member of Michigan Technological University’s community is top of mind for Reid DeVoge, deputy chief of Public Safety and Police Services. So last year, following the loss of a...
Podcast: Red Flag Laws Explained: Can ERPOs Stop School Shootings?
In this episode of Stop the Killing, former FBI executive Katherine Schweit sits down with leading researchers studying gun violence prevention to explain Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) —...
Podcast: School Shootings Start Long Before the Gun — Here’s How to Stop Them
In this episode of Stop the Killing, Katherine Schweit is joined by leading researchers from the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and the National Center for School...
Media Mention: Thoughts don’t kill people, but study suggests options for keeping guns from doing so
Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn’t already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make...
Media Mention: Michigan’s ‘red flag’ gun law use jumps 31% in 2025
Use of Michigan’s “red flag” gun law jumped 31% from 2024 to 2025, according to a report released this week, prompting cautious optimism from supporters but hardly quelling debate about the policy....
Institute postdoctoral fellow receives 2025 Jess Kraus Award in Injury Epidemiology
Dr. Mike Henson-Garcia, a postdoctoral fellow at the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, was recently awarded the 2025 Jess Kraus Award in Injury Epidemiology for his publication titled...
Media Mention: How Often Do Kids Bring Guns to School? Here’s What We Know
Despite the lack of quality information, available data and research offer clues about why some students bring guns to school, and why school officials have struggled to respond. For many students,...
Podcast: Preventing intimate partner homicide with red flag laws
Over half of all female homicide victims in the United States are killed with a gun, most often by an intimate partner. In this episode, University of Michigan School of Public Health researcher...
Media Mention: More than 600,000 US-sourced firearms traced to crime within a year of purchase, new research finds
A new study analysing firearms traced by U.S. authorities offers one of the clearest pictures yet of how quickly legally purchased guns are diverted into crime across the Americas. It also shows...