For you illiterates
Leading firearm violence prevention researchers are first to use data to show differences in gun culture across the country, identifying gun cultures around recreation, self-defense, and politics.
phys.org
Oh lies, darn lies, compiled to make study[ies] [read as $$$$ from grants]
from OP’s cite regarding data sources...quote:
We developed empirical methods to identify variations in elements of gun culture
across states. Using these methods, we then analyzed the prominence of these subcultures between states and over time from
1998 through 2016. Using
state-level data...
We constructed a panel of annualized data on gun-related variables for all 50 states from 1998 to 2016.
In our attempt to identify and empirically measure elements of gun culture, we examined 11 variables:
(1) the number of per capita hunting licenses;
(2) the number of per capita NRA members;
(3) the share of NRA members
who subscribe to the magazine The American Hunter;
(4) the share of NRA members
who subscribe to the magazine America’s 1st Freedom;
(5) the share of NRA members
who subscribe to the magazine American Rifleman;
(6) the per capita
number of subscriptions to the
most popular gun-related magazine (Guns and Ammo);
(7) per capita purchases of handguns;
(8) per capita purchases of long guns;
(9) the
presence of a “stand your ground” law;
(10) the
presence of a ban on assault weapons, and
(11) the per capita number of federally licensed gun dealers.
Data availability
The dataset generated during the current study
is not publicly available as it contains proprietary information that the authors acquired through a license.
Received: 28 June 2019; Accepted: 18 June 2020;
published on line 08 July 2020.
Unquote
[interestingly there are references cited from 30 July 2019, March & April 2020, 50 year olde references from 1970?]
underwritten by grants from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Ted Alcorn was a founding employee of Everytown For Gun Safety, where he was the Research Director and then the Director of Innovation, and he previously served as a policy analyst in the Office of the Mayor of New York City. He earned graduate degrees as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and their School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and lived in Beijing, China as a Henry Luce scholar.
absolutely not one iota the “study” was peer reviewed!