Report Outlines Strategies for Reducing Deaths, Injuries From Gun Use by 2040

The authors seek to ’reduce firearm harms,' while critics say they are pushing advocacy as science.

A man holds a sign during the second March for Our Lives rally against violence using guns at Pine Trails Park, in Parkland, Fla., on June 11, 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The American Medical Association has released a report outlining a plan for reducing violent crime involving guns and strategies to reduce “firearms harms.”

The report, “Toward a Safer World by 2040: The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms,” lays out five broad strategies outlined during a March summit of 60 leaders from a spectrum of disciplines.