L'Huillier, Joseph C.Nordin, Andrew B.Nair, Veer V.Cantor, Brittany L.Tadlock, BryanFriend, BriannaBoccardo, Joseph D.Yu, JihnheeLukan, JamesLillvis, Denise F.Bass, Kathryn D.2025-04-012025-04-012024-12-240003-1348https://hdl.handle.net/10919/125123Objectives: In 2020, the public health crises of gun violence and novel coronavirus (COVID-19) collided and interventions to decrease COVID-19 transmission displaced millions of Americans from normal activity. We analyzed the effects of COVID-19 and its resultant shutdowns on gun violence in Buffalo, NY. Methods: We queried the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and the hospital databases from the 2 level 1 trauma centers which serve Buffalo firearm victims between March 15th and June 24th, 2020 ("COVID") and the same time period for years 2013 (hospital data)/2014 (GVA data) through 2019 ("pre-COVID") and 2021 through 2022 ("post-COVID"). Data points collected included number of daily victims, victim age, gender, and morbidity/mortality. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to compare gun violence in these 3 periods. Results: There were 518 and 913 victims in the GVA and hospital data sets, respectively. Bivariate analyses showed fewer incidents on Saturdays during the pandemic in both data sets (<i>P</i> < 0.05). Multivariate analyses demonstrated no association between number of gun violence victims and time period in either data set (<i>P</i> > 0.05). Conclusions: There was no change in number of gun violence victims during the COVID-19 shutdowns compared to pre-COVID and post-COVID periods in Buffalo, NY. However, there was a change in the weekly temporality of gun violence during the COVID pandemic. Multiple databases are needed to accurately capture gun violence from an epidemiologic perspective.application/pdfenIn CopyrightBuffaloCOVID-19archiveepidemiologyfirearmsgun violenceHumansCOVID-19MaleFemaleDatabases, FactualGun ViolenceAdultMiddle AgedNew YorkYoung AdultPandemicsAdolescentArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00031348241300363914397169001555-9823