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标题：Legal Liability for Returning Firearms to Suicidal Persons Who Voluntarily Surrender Them in 50 US States
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作者：Molly J. Gibbons ; Mary D. Fan ; Ali Rowhani-Rahbar 等
期刊名称：American journal of public health
印刷版ISSN：0090-0036
出版年度：2020
卷号：110
期号：5
页码：685-688
DOI：10.2105/AJPH.2019.305545
出版社：American Public Health Association
摘要：Temporary transfers of firearms from suicidal persons is a strategy to reduce the incidence of suicide deaths. We discuss a barrier to the effective operation of voluntary temporary firearm transfer laws: the dearth of guidance on the liability for returning firearms to persons who voluntarily surrender them. We examine the laws of all 50 US states that regulate temporary surrenders of firearms and evaluate whether any provisions govern liability for returning temporarily surrendered firearms. Although 14 states create background check exceptions to permit temporary transfers of firearms from an owner to family, friends, retailers, or law enforcement, no states prescribe procedures for returning those firearms.ability for returning the firearms to people who voluntarily surrendered them. We recommend amending state laws to clarify the process and liability for returning temporarily surrendered firearms to the original owner. Such amendments would be intended to mitigate the potential chilling effect that lack of clarity and presumption of liability may impose on efficiently reducing firearm access to protect firearm owners at risk for suicide.