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Andrew Morral

@andrewmorral.bsky.social
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Greenwald Chair in Gun Policy at RAND. Director of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: www.ncgvr.org Co-Director of RAND’s Gun Policy In America initiative: www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.ht….

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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The pandemic firearm purchasing spree saw women’s gun ownership rise by 35%. (Men’s didn’t.) Growth in women’s gun ownership was incredibly broad-based, across income levels, races, education, etc. But exclusively among Republican women, not Democrats. www.rand.org/pubs/comment...
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The Recent Rise of Women Gun Owners
In recent years, women made up almost half of all new gun owners, a striking shift from the historical norm, when women accounted for about a quarter of them. And the uptick is widespread across geogr...
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Reminder that the nomination period for the $5,000 Greenwald Family Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence closes in one month. Peer-reviewed papers published within the past two years are eligible for this prize. lnkd.in/dWe9qZaa
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The 2026 Greenwald Family Award is now accepting nominations of research papers that have most advanced understanding the nature, causes or prevention of firearm violence or other harms. Nomination instructions for this annual $5000 prize are here: www.firearmresearchsociety.org/2026-greenwa...
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Greenwald Family Award — Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
yup
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So damaging to our scientific organizations and young scientists trying to get started in this environment.
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Julie Ward @julie-a-ward.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I am one of those early career researchers (described at the end of this piece) whose work has been possible because of these projects. I’m grateful for the risk folks took to prioritize such investments. This is a huge loss.💔
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
These projects have been immensely important to me, and I'm sorry to see them come to an end. But so long as gun violence remains a leading cause of death and grief in this country RAND will work to bring evidence and policy solutions to address it. www.thetrace.org/2026/02/rand...
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RAND Is Sunsetting Its Gun Violence Research Initiatives Amid Trump’s Cuts
Experts lamented the think tank's closures as a loss for policymakers, advocates, and researchers who have relied on the data to prevent shootings.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Huge state differences in suicide/homicide rates are often explained away by, for instance, economic conditions, demographics, firearm ownership rates, political lean, etc. How plausible are those claims, and what portion of state mortality rates cannot be so explained? ‎‎‎[1/2]
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
An excellent review of our Science of Gun Policy report released last week by Gina Napoletano. www.wearethemighty.com/military-new...
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What 30 years of US gun policy research actually reveals
30 years of research suggest only a small number of gun laws show consistent, measurable effects, according to a new RAND analysis.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
We just released our last scheduled update to The Science of Gun Policy, our review of the evidence on the effects of gun laws. {thread} www.rand.org/research/gun...
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Informing the Gun Policy Debate
New resources from RAND's decade-long Gun Policy in America initiative include a visualization tool that allows users to explore how state-level firearm mortality rates relate to a range of social and...
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Worth repeating (for no particular reason)
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I just found this cookbook in a little free library. Boy have things changed in the past 85 years.
THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S COOK BOOK

EDITED BY RUTH BEROLZHEIMERRoast Opossum recipeTurtle and terrapin recipes Roast squirrels recipe
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Society for the Advancement of Injury and Violence Research @thesavir.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The CDC Injury Center faces cuts in FY 2026. Senate bill = full funding. House bill = elimination of ICRCs + firearm violence prevention. Your voice matters—urge your Rep to support Senate funding! Read more + act now: buff.ly/Lh7Npll #InjuryPrevention #PublicHealth
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Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thank you Andrew! Very honored! We really enjoyed putting this paper together and are very pleased by the response it has gotten. Huge thanks also to the NCGVR for the funding for the fifth wave that made this and other recent work possible.
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Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Very honored by this; thank you Andrew! Wish I could have made it to the conference this year to celebrate! Also, important to note this research was made possible with funding from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research for the PHDCN's fifth wave.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I also want to congratulate @clanfear.bsky.social, David Kirk and Rob Sampson, whose paper “Dual pathways of concealed gun carrying and use from adolescence to adulthood over a 25-year era of change” was one of two selected for honorable mention by the 2025 Greenwald Award Independent Review Panel!
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations to John J. Donohue and colleagues, whose paper, “Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates,” was one of two selected for honorable mention by the 2025 Greenwald Award Independent Review Panel! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates
Since the 1970s most state restrictions on carrying handguns in public have been eased or eliminated. Several of the early impact evaluations of these…
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Here is the Independent Review Panel's full commendation for this award-winning paper:
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Congratulations to @rsbeidas.bsky.social and her team for winning the $5000 Greenwald Award for research on firearm violence prevention for their paper, "Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial"! static1.squarespace.com/static/63924...
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Interesting WSJ analysis of NIBRS data finds justifiable homicides rising more rapidly than total homicides in Stand-Your-Ground states, and faster than it is rising in non-SYG states. The intended effect of SYG!, but they note some real problems with application of these laws.
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Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer’
The number of legally sanctioned homicides has grown substantially in states with expanded self-defense rights under stand-your-ground laws.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Am I squinting too hard, or is there more structure to these trends than explained by COVID? In three of these series something happens around 2015, as well as peaking in 2021. Do you work with other series that look like this? Any grand theories?
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
CDC Wonder is down?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New Mexico AG Torrez: One of the biggest issues we face is gun violence. We haven’t seen any surge of federal law enforcement agencies dedicated to helping us reduce gun violence. What we’ve seen instead is a lot of the performative stuff — DHS going down to paint the wall to make it hotter.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
These are undoubtedly underestimates. Without mandatory reporting of lost/stolen guns (in most states) how many private citizens never report a loss, or even a theft?
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 29/08/2025
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
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Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Gun owners, lock up your guns. I can’t help but wonder about the thousands of guns lost and stolen from licensed gun dealers. How many were sold off the books? How many were stolen by employees who aren’t required to be vetted? It’s signals poor regulation and oversight.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Per a recent ATF report, in 2023 there were 208,184 firearms lost/stolen: - 188,560 from private citizens - 9,479 lost by gun dealers - 5,755 stolen from gun dealers - 4,390 lost/stolen in shipping More than 1M between 2019-2023
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 17/08/2025
The Trump administration is moving to slash the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention. Here’s what’s at stake. thetr.ac/MGM94
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
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The Joyce Foundation @joycefdn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We’re #hiring for the role of Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program Director. Learn more at the link below and please share with your networks. joycefoundation.bamboohr.com/careers/30
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Program Director, GVPJR
FOUNDATION OVERVIEW The Joyce Foundation is a private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in...
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
LAST CALL: Nominations for the $5,000 Greenwald Award for Excellence in Firearm Violence Prevention Research close in less than two weeks.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Trump's move to investigate and prosecute James Comey, the former director who documented Trump's attempt to corrupt the FBI, is a grave step toward American authoritarianism. This article, which I wrote in 2019, lays out the evidence. The president is trying to silence those who expose his crimes.
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Mueller Proved Comey Told the Truth
And the president lied.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
San Francisco has reported 11 murders through June 2025 and 31 over the last 12 months. That's the fewest murders through June and fewest rolling over 12 months ever recorded (monthly reporting from the FBI starts in 1960).
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It's not just the US murder rate that is likely at or near the lowest level ever recorded. The data from the first 4 months of 2025 points to the possibility of the lowest reported property crime rate ever & lowest violent crime rate in decades. This week's piece: jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
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It's Not Just Murder That's Likely At Historic Lows
The US is on track to record the lowest violent crime rate since 1968 and lowest property crime rate ever.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025
This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy. Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.
A screen shot of an email reading: 

Dear Dr. Gill, Jacquelyn,
 
I am writing to let you know that given the current budgetary projections and recent adjustment of NSF’s over-arching priorities, NSF/BIO will not be making any new awards through the Biology Integration Institutes Program. Therefore, the solicitation has been archived, and NSF has returned your proposal without review so you can re-submit it, or portions of it, to appropriate BIO programs that currently are receiving new proposals, if you wish.
 
Sincerely,
 
Jim Deshler
Division Director (Acting)
Division of Biological Infrastructure
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Fact check: it is correct that in the most recent year of vital statistics data AR has a homicide rate twice that of CA. It’s basically true looking back over the last three or five years as well. AR has a big homicide problem, almost all of which concerns firearms homicides.
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
JUST RELEASED: Accurate data on firearm injuries in the United States are critical to understand the costs and prevention of gun violence. But comprehensive data on injuries isn't available. We have instead developed estimates covering 2000-2022 that can be downloaded: www.rand.org/research/gun...
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Firearm Injury Hospitalizations in America
To address a gap in the available data on firearm injuries, RAND researchers have developed a longitudinal database of state-level estimates of hospitalizations due to firearm injury. Use this visuali...
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Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Much of the spending on murder investigation is local, so not counted in these figures. Nevertheless the law enforcement expenditure differences across these federal agencies does highlight a strange prioritization. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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Deport Dishwashers or Solve All Murders? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t understand is being more concerned about the former than t...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 06/06/2025
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025
Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Dr. Deanna Giraldi, MPH @deannagiraldi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
In case anyone missed it: go.bsky.app/Nt64iir 🧡 #AcademicSky #MedSky #GVP #gunviolence #research #practice
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Dr. Deanna Giraldi, MPH @deannagiraldi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨 Haven’t yet read our new paper mapping 25 years of #gunviolence research and the gaps that need to be addressed? Open access link: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... #AcademicSky #GVP #SocSky
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Redirecting
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/06/2025
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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