Table 9 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 destination of 100 or more crime-related firearms in a given year, adjusting for state-level characteristics, 2010–2017

Intercept

−1.16 (−2.17, − 0.15)*

Year

0.08 (0.04, 0.12)***

Poverty rate

0.06 (−0.03, 0.16)

Density

0.04 (−0.05, 0.13)

Area

0.47 (0.09, 0.85)*

Firearm ownership

−0.23 (− 0.55, 0.08)

Number of laws

0.51 (0.30, 0.71)***

 New England

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 Mid-Atlantic

1.83 (0.89, 2.77)***

 East North Central

1.99 (0.95, 3.03)***

 West North Central

1.31 (0.16, 2.45)*

 South Atlantic

2.30 (1.28, 3.32)***

 East South Central

1.80 (0.69, 2.91)**

 West South Central

1.64 (0.36, 2.92)*

 Mountain

0.96 (−0.24, 2.16)

 Pacific

1.39 (0.35, 2.43)**