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http://www.westernjournalism.com/flashback-english-warn-us-not-to-give-up-our-guns/

Australia, in response to a killing spree, outlawed automatic weapons and placed severe restrictions on other types of weapons in 1996. The effects of gun control in Australia have been widely studied, but this meta-analysis shows no significant outcome on murder or suicide rates:

• Wang-Sheng Lee, Sandy Suardi, The Australian Firearms Buyback and Its Effect on Gun Deaths  Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2008n17, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne, 2008.

   

  The 1996-97 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) in Australia introduced strict gun  laws, primarily as a reaction to the mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996,  where 35 people were killed. Despite the fact that several researchers using the same  data have examined the impact of the NFA on firearm deaths, a consensus does not  appear to have been reached. In this paper, we re-analyze the same data on firearm  deaths used in previous research, using tests for unknown structural breaks as a means  to identifying impacts of the NFA. The results of these tests suggest that the NFA did  not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates.