Hawaii had the fewest non-fatal injuries from firearms in 2010 in a comparison of 18 states, including California, New York and Florida, a new study shows.
The report found that states with stricter gun-control laws — regulating guns and ammo, requiring background checks before sales, reporting lost or stolen firearms and keeping dangerous people from buying weapons — had the lowest injury rates.
It was published in the August edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
Hawaii had lowest injury rate — 3.3 non-fatal gun injuries per 100,000 people.
[For more of this story, written by Chad Blair, go to http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/...n-control-laws-work/]
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