Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-14 13:59:10 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7DDE4C27E0538057AF8E530F75F2AA603337933BBF3DA4DDC5A139ABA0848E6A
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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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