part of the initial impetus for the Dickey Amendment resulted from the outcry from the gun lobby about a 1992 study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) titled “Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership,” which tested the hypothesis that “limiting access to firearms could prevent many suicides.” After an extensive analysis of nearly a thousand cases, the authors found evidence supporting the notion that “the ready availability of guns increases the risk of suicide in the home” and advised that “people who own firearms should carefully weigh their reasons for keeping a gun in
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