Collaboration between firearm retailers and public health experts to reduce suicide.  

Firearm retailers and firearm rights advocates worked with suicide prevention experts–including HICRC’s Mary Vriniotis and Cathy Barber–to help gun dealers take an active role in reducing suicide.  Materials were created for both gun dealers (providing tips to reduce the odds of selling a firearm to someone who is suicidal) and for their customers (encouraging customers to consider off-site storage if someone at home may be suicidal).  Close to half of firearms retailers in New Hampshire are currently displaying some of these  suicidal prevention materials.  The study reporting the findings was published online today in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, with Vriniotis as lead author.