Evaluation of the United States’ Permitless Concealed Carry Laws and Child Health in the ECHO Cohort
Marie L. ChurchilL, Emily A. Knapp, Alexander D. Mccourt, Nandita Somayaji, Courtney K. Blackwell, Lyndsay A. Avalos, Kelly A. Hirko, Kaja Z. Lewinn, Johnnye Lewis, Yeyi Zhu, Alison E. Hipwell, Margaret R. Karagas, Kristen Lyall, Jody M. Ganiban, Nigel Paneth, T. Michael O’shea, Christine C. Johnson · 2026
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Marie L. ChurchilL and colleagues evaluate 2026 US permitless concealed carry laws and child health in the ECHO cohort. Guns kill more children in the United States than any other cause, and by 2023, half of US states had passed laws allowing permitless concealed carry of firearms. The cross-sectional study tested links between permitless concealed carry laws and children's general health with nationwide ECHO cohort data from 2003 to 2023.
Regression models gauged links between living under state-level permitless concealed carry laws six months before each outcome, after adjusting for person- and area-level factors. About one fifth of the sample, 11,325 children, lived in states where carrying a handgun without a permit was allowed. Children in those states were twenty-five percent less likely to report good general health, with an odds ratio of 0.75.
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| CREATOR | Marie L. ChurchilL, Emily A. Knapp, Alexander D. Mccourt, Nandita Somayaji, Courtney K. Blackwell, Lyndsay A. Avalos, Kelly A. Hirko, Kaja Z. Lewinn, Johnnye Lewis, Yeyi Zhu, Alison E. Hipwell, Margaret R. Karagas, Kristen Lyall, Jody M. Ganiban, Nigel Paneth, T. Michael O’shea, Christine C. Johnson |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |