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Slides from 01/30/2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on guns.

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Page 1: Judiciary Committee Slides

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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.    

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                               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).  

 

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               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).    

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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).    

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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%  

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