Reply #150: Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Visit your local library to see if they have them or can request it via inter-library loan.

Those criteria are indeed ones used in many of the studies, with a typical initial question asked like- "Within the past five years, have you yourself or another member of your household used a gun, even if it was not fired, for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere? Please do not include military service, police work, or work as a security guard."

Subsequent questions serve to validate the use, with lots of questions that one has to keep internally consistent in order to avoid a false positive 'use'.

Here's the link to the NCVS survey results- http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/165476.pdf