jlf1961
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Scholarship on the effectiveness of the 1994 assault weapons ban — which expired in 2004 — has suggested that the law may have reduced gun-related homicides in the immediate aftermath of the law’s passage, but gun market forces (particularly the increase in manufacturing just prior to the ban) complicate this picture. Researchers believe that the failure to curb the use of large capacity magazines, also technically banned by the new law, muted the law’s intended effects. As noted in a 2004 study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, the use of assault weapons — primarily assault pistols — in gun crimes after the 1994 ban was implemented dropped by 17% to 72% across cities such as Baltimore, Miami, Milwaukee, Boston, St. Louis and Anchorage. However, assault weapons were used in only 2% to 8% of gun crimes before the ban; by far the most pressing issue was the use of large capacity magazines, which were used in 14% to 26% of gun crimes before the ban. source As I said before, mass shootings are not the norm, they are the exception to gun violence.
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