About the Authors

Evan R. Polzer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

evan.polzer@va.gov

Affiliation VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Ryan Holliday

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Carly M. Rohs

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Suzanne M. Thomas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Christin N. Miller

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Joseph A. Simonetti

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America

Lisa A. Brenner

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Lindsey L. Monteith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: All authors report grant funding from the VA. Drs. Monteith, Holliday, Brenner, Thomas, and Rohs also report grant funding from the Department of Defense. Dr. Brenner additionally report funding from the National Institutes of Health and the State of Colorado, editorial renumeration from Wolters Kluwer, and royalties from the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press. In addition, she consults with sports leagues via her university affiliation. While this funding does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, we do not have approval by our regulatory authority to share de-identified data publicly for this study, but rather are able to consider such requests through a Data Use Agreement and verification of IRB approval from the requestor. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.