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How you store your guns matters. It could save lives.

A modest increase in the number of people who store firearms in their homes safely could help to save the lives of hundreds of children each year, according to a new study conducted by Northeastern professor Matthew Miller. “What we don’t know,” he says, “is how to appeal to parents’ desire to protect their children in a way that gets them to store guns more safely.”
- by Khalida Sarwari May 13, 2019
Does having a gun at home really make you safer?

Northeastern professor Matthew Miller is one of the nation’s leading researchers of gun violence. In his previous career, he was on the front lines of another life-and-death battleground.
- by Ian Thomsen February 13, 2019
Clearing up misconceptions about gun violence could make suicide attempts less deadly, study says

There are roughly twice as many suicides as homicides in the United States every year, and more than half of them involve guns. According to a new study by Matthew Miller, a Northeastern professor of health sciences, most people have no idea that suicide is the most common type of violent death.
- by Laura Castañón November 1, 2018
Do more guns lead to more fatal police shootings?

A new study by researchers from Northeastern and Harvard examines the correlation between gun laws and shootings by police officers.
- by Ian Thomsen October 26, 2018
Study finds 3M Americans carry a loaded handgun daily

The study was the first of its kind in more than 20 years to assess why and how often gun owners carry their loaded firearms.
- by Allie Nicodemo October 19, 2017
New study finds 1 in 5 US gun owners obtained firearm without background check

The national survey, which was led by Northeastern professor Matthew Miller and his colleagues at Harvard, also found that the share of gun owners who acquired firearms via private sale in the past two years without background checks was significantly larger in states without laws regulating such purchases.
- by Greg St. Martin January 5, 2017
Study: 70M more firearms added to US gun stock over past 20 years

The estimated number of privately-owned guns in the U.S. grew to approximately 265 million between 1994 and 2015, with the majority of those new guns being handguns, according to a comprehensive national survey co-led by Northeastern. Owners also now cite protection as a primary reason of ownership.
- by Greg St. Martin September 26, 2016

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