Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-13 04:25:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0732CCE491EB9A7580DC97DF2A5D6C08CCAF5304EDE1FEECF8354EB0B3658826
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Analyses using a variety of national & local data sources found no clear ban effects. See U.S. Dept of Justice/OJP (Office of Justice Programs) report: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/173405.pdf Additionally, long guns of any kind did and still do represent only a minority of gun deaths, with most caused by handguns: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls
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