Illicit firearms

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2021

NCJ Number

310167

Date Published

August 2025

Agencies

BJS

Publication Type

Publication, Statistics

Full Report (PDF 824K) | Data Tables (ZIP 26K)

Population-level Effects on Crime of Recovering Firearms from Armed Prohibited Persons: Intention-to-treat Analysis of a Pragmatic Cluster-randomised Trial in California Cities

NCJ Number

310300

Journal

Injury Prevention

Date Published

October 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

HTML

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2021

NCJ Number

310167

Date Published

August 2025

Agencies

BJS

Full Report (PDF 824K) | Data Tables (ZIP 26K)

Youth, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

NCJ Number

138725

Date Published

1992

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

PDF

Population-level Effects on Crime of Recovering Firearms from Armed Prohibited Persons: Intention-to-treat Analysis of a Pragmatic Cluster-randomised Trial in California Cities

NCJ Number

310300

Journal

Injury Prevention

Date Published

October 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HTML

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 Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Statistics

PDF

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

PDF

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020

NCJ Number

306971

Date Published

November 2023

Agencies

BJS

Series

BJS Bulletins

Publication Type

Publication, Statistics

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

Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2019–2020

NCJ Number

306971

Date Published

November 2023

Agencies

BJS

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

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

NCJ Number

229859

Journal

Sociological Focus

Date Published

August 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

HTML

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

NCJ Number

234235

Journal

Journal of Experimental Criminology

Date Published

March 2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

PDF

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

NCJ Number

181158

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

PDF

Armed and prohibited: characteristics of unlawful owners of legally purchased firearms

NCJ Number

304747

Journal

Injury Prevention

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HTML

Armed and prohibited: characteristics of unlawful owners of legally purchased firearms

NCJ Number

304747

Journal

Injury Prevention

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HTML

Prosecution of Federal Firearms Offenses, 2000–16

NCJ Number

254520

Date Published

October 2021

Agencies

BJS-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored)

Full Report (PDF 1.1M)

The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide Rates among Black and White Populations in the United States, 1991-2016

NCJ Number

302577

Journal

Health & Social Work

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HTML

Promising Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence

NCJ Number

173950

Date Published

February 1999

Agencies

OJJDP

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

DOC

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

NCJ Number

195214

Journal

Criminology & Public Policy

Date Published

2002

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

HTML

Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms

NCJ Number

155885

Date Published

1994

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Publisher Site

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

NCJ Number

37283

Date Published

1976

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

NCJ Number

194992

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

March 2002

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

HTML

Arrestees and Guns: Monitoring the Illegal Firearms Market, Final Report

NCJ Number

163497

Date Published

1996

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey

PDF

Armed Criminal in America - A Survey of Incarcerated Felons

NCJ Number

97099

Date Published

1985

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

PDF

Drugs and Guns Among Inner-City High School Students

NCJ Number

156064

Journal

Journal of Drug Education

Date Published

1994

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

HTML

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