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The choice of weapons in firearm suicides.

We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides--65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females--and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We tested the hypothesis that the choice of fi...

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Main Authors: Wintemute, G J, Teret, S P, Kraus, J F, Wright, M W
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1988
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1350343/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3381960
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