How effective was WA state's approach to separating guns from domestic violence?

According to the first of today's Five Studies About: Firearms and Domestic Violence

May 08, 2025

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Published Tuesdays (free) and Wednesdays (paid, more in-depth), Five Studies About is a tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic. Today’s topic is firearms and domestic violence.

"Five Studies About" appears in the foreground. The background is a blackboard with five thick tally marks written in chalk. — Photo by David Stewart, credit to homegets.com, CC BY 2.0. Modified by Aaron Jacklin in Canva.

These new crime studies related to firearms and domestic violence were recently published by journals I monitor. Each of the following study listings include two quotations from the study’s abstract. The first quote discusses what they set out to find and the second describes what they found.

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