From: Voluntary, temporary out-of-home firearm storage: a survey of law enforcement agencies in two states
Overall (N = 126) | Colorado (N = 63) | Washington (N = 63) | p value | |
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Circumstances in which storage provided^ | ||||
Safety concerns/suicide concerns | 92 (73.0%) | 44 (69.8%) | 48 (76.2%) | 0.547 |
Upon request | 58 (46.0%) | 25 (39.7%) | 33 (52.4%) | 0.211 |
Relative passed away | 46 (36.5%) | 17 (27.0%) | 29 (46.0%) | 0.041 |
During addiction, medical or mental health treatment | 41 (32.5%) | 23 (36.5%) | 18 (28.6%) | 0.447 |
Divorce | 17 (13.5%) | 9 (14.3%) | 8 (12.7%) | > 0.999 |
Prohibited individual is guest in the home | 15 (11.9%) | 8 (12.7%) | 7 (11.1%) | > 0.999 |
Related to ERPO, court order, or domestic violence | 25 (19.8%) | 8 (12.7%) | 17 (27.0%) | 0.073 |
Travel out of town | 8 (6.3%) | 2 (3.2%) | 6 (9.5%) | 0.273 |
Military deployment | 2 (1.6%) | 1 (1.6%) | 1 (1.6%) | > 0.999 |
Moving | 1 (0.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (1.6%) | > 0.999 |
Other | 22 (17.5%) | 8 (12.7%) | 14 (22.2%) | 0.240 |
Circumstances in which storage denied^ | ||||
Reason for storing not appropriate | 47 (37.3%) | 25 (39.7%) | 22 (34.9%) | 0.713 |
Not enough storage space | 17 (13.5%) | 12 (19.0%) | 5 (7.9%) | 0.116 |
Not their firearm | 14 (11.1%) | 10 (15.9%) | 4 (6.3%) | 0.155 |
Other | 5 (4.0%) | 2 (3.2%) | 3 (4.8%) | > 0.999 |
Not applicable | 17 (1.0%) | 9 (9.9%) | 8 (10.4%) | > 0.999 |
Frequency of providing storage upon request | 0.276 | |||
For all requests | 73 (57.9%) | 31 (49.2%) | 42 (66.7%) | |
For more than half of requests | 19 (15.1%) | 11 (17.5%) | 8 (12.7%) | |
For less than half of requests, but at least once | 28 (22.2%) | 16 (25.4%) | 12 (19.0%) | |
Storage processes for court-ordered versus voluntary storage | 0.477 | |||
Handled differently | 53 (42.1%) | 25 (39.7%) | 28 (44.4%) | |
Handled the same | 57 (45.2%) | 27 (42.9%) | 30 (47.6%) | |
Do not provide both | 14 (11.1%) | 9 (14.3%) | 5 (7.9%) | |
Agency has ever declined to return firearm that was being temporarily stored in your facility due to safety concerns | 0.016 | |||
Yes | 51 (40.5%) | 19 (30.2%) | 32 (50.8%) | |
No | 69 (54.8%) | 42 (66.7%) | 27 (42.9%) |