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2023-05-13 05:05:16 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4AFC54ADF4DB3DFBB806CF76DDE43873B74CA9AF94586567E18FF6428B847BB3
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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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