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Slides from 01/30/2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on guns.TRANSCRIPT
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1976 (handguns banned) 1988 1993
Homicides in Washington D.C.
Jeffrey Shapiro, A Gun Ban That Misfired, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 15, 2013.
Department of JusHce:
AWB “failed to reduce the average number of vicHms per gun murder
incident or mulHple gunshot wound vicHms”
U.S. Department of JusHce, Impact of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban: 1994-‐96, at 1 (1999).
NaHonal InsHtute of JusHce on AWB:
“There has been no discernible reducHon in
the lethality and injuriousness of gun
violence.” Christopher S. Koper, Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-‐2003, at 96 (2004).
12.10% 1.70%
39.60%
39.20%
Where Prisoners Got Firearms – 1997
Retail store/ Pawnshop
Gun show
Friends or family
Street/ illegal source
Gun Shows 1.7%
U.S. Department of JusHce, Bureau of JusHce StaHsHcs, Firearms Use By Offenders (2001).
18.90%
1.90%
33.80%
40.80%
Retail store/ pawn shop Gun show Friends or family Street/ Illegal source
Where Prisoners Got Firearms – 1991
U.S. Department of JusHce, Bureau of JusHce StaHsHcs, Firearms Use By Offenders (2001).
Gun Shows 1.9%