Table 8 Linear regression model with Prais-Winsten estimator describing the relationship between a state’s total number of firearm laws and number of other states for which it is the source of 100 or more crime-related firearms in a given year, adjusting for state-level characteristics, 2010–2017
From: Firearm laws and the network of firearm movement among US states
Variable | b (95% CI) |
|---|---|
Intercept | −0.004 (−0.58, 0.57) |
Year | 0.08 (0.05, 0.10)*** |
Poverty rate | 0.05 (−0.01, 0.11) |
Density | −0.12 (−0.26, 0.06) |
Area | 0.70 (0.37, 1.02)*** |
Firearm ownership | −0.05 (−0.12, 0.01)*** |
Number of laws | −0.21 (−0.42, 0.00)* |
Census division | |
New England | ref |
Mid-Atlantic | 1.41 (0.52, 2.31)** |
East North Central | 0.75 (0.12, 1.39)* |
West North Central | −0.02 (−0.71, 0.67) |
South Atlantic | 1.50 (0.89, 2.11)*** |
East South Central | 1.02 (0.37, 1.68)** |
West South Central | 0.30 (−0.42, 1.02) |
Mountain | −0.42 (−1.08, 0.25) |
Pacific | 0.66 (−0.11, 1.44) |