10 years of Universal background checks - no impact on crime

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10 years of Universal background checks - no impact on crime

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Looks like the holy grail of 'Gun violence prevention' does pretty much nothing to alter 'gun violence' rates.
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The Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) at UC Davis and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted a study about the impact California's gun control laws have had on homicide and suicide rates over the last 10 years. And guess what? Researchers found that the Golden State's gun control laws had absolutely no impact. And, even more surprising, the study's lead researcher found that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is severely flawed.

"It compared observed annual firearm homicide and suicide rates in California over 10 years following enactment of comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies in 1991 with expected rates based on data from 32 control states that did not have these policies and did not implement other major firearm policies during the same time," researchers explained in a press release.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/13362" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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