Note: The registration portion of the Firearms Act was implemented in 2001 and became mandatory in 2003.
I put this table together because of a Twitter conversation that was going back and forth about murder, suicides and firearms.
So here is a fact-based, empirical set of data on what went down between 2000 and 2007.
For me, the striking thing is the decrease of firearm related suicides. Quite remarkable.
I should mention that these data are publicly available and accessible at no cost.
What other conclusions do you draw from the data?
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