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Firearms research: The gun fighter

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There are almost as many firearms in the United States as there are citizens. Garen Wintemute is one of few people studying the consequences.

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  • 10 June 2013

    This article originally wrongly implied that blogger David Codrea had ‘outed’ gun researcher Garen Wintemute. In fact, Wintemute had publicized his own work before Codrea’s blog post. The text has been corrected to reflect this.

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    The original version of this News Feature did not cite the sources for the graphs. These have now been added.

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    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/498151b

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