Guns in family violence: legal weapons pose the greatest risk (original) (raw)

1995

Abstract

There should be nothing surprising about these figures. Where comparable jurisdictions have studied the same relationship they report similar proportions. In New South Wales, 62% of firearms seized in domestic violence incidents are legally owned. In Canada, 78.3% of gunrelated domestic homicides were committed with firearms in the legal possession of licensed owners. Canada’s Department of Justice study prompted the Canadian Journal of Criminology to report:

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