BMC Public Health 2009, 9:199 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/199 Gun Nongun FFLs 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 FHiogmuriceid1e incidence rate and federal firearms licensee (FFL) prevalence rate in the U.S., 1993–1999 Homicide incidence rate and federal firearms licensee (FFL) prevalence rate in the U.S., 1993–1999. 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 n o i t a l u p o p 0 0 0 , 1 r e p s L F F 187.27 187.27 97.75 30.93 0.81 82.20 86.76 97.69 99.41 58.60 77.51 36.07 55.27 64.36 100.00 75702 37.90 7.41 11 4 100 4 3 n o i t a l u p o p 0 0 0 ,02 0 1 r e p s e d i c i m o H 1 0 Table 1: Characteristics of U.S. counties, 1993–1999 Homicide rate (per 100,000) Gun Non-gun Federal firearms licensees (FFL) (per 1,000) % of population age 15–29 years % male % African American % Native American % Hispanic % married % living alone % of female headed households % of persons below poverty level % of adult population college educated % of arrests that were drug related Average per capita income (%) Unemployment rate Hospital beds per 1,000 population Urbanization (11-code mRUC) Urbanization (collapsed mRUC) Leniency of state gun laws mRUC denotes modified rural-urban continuum codes. 11 codes were collapsed into 4 groups for analysis. Data exclude Alaska due to lack of FFL information. Page 4 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) 1996 Year Mean 4.63 3.25 1.38 1.15 0.31 49.32 9.20 1.18 5.21 44.96 24.67 10.17 15.22 24.23 7.29 19347 5.87 2.85 8.00 3.67 75.71 Standard deviation Minimum Maximum 7.87 6.53 3.54 1.10 0.36 1.95 15.00 7.42 11.81 5.04 3.83 3.98 6.58 7.06 4.96 4985 3.04 3.98 2.74 0.61 17.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.001 0.09 43.86 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.50 7.91 0.78 0.00 8.41 0.00 1185 0.00 0.00 1 1 3