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It's not a blanket ban on gun possession though, it was purely a semi-automatic/automatic buyback. Lower capacity guns are still freely available.
by froo 14y ago
It's not a blanket ban on gun possession though, it was purely a semi-automatic/automatic buyback.
Lower capacity guns are still freely available.
- rdl 14y agoIt also seriously limited access overall (either by law or by culture). Otherwise the gun suicide rate wouldn't have been affected, since most suicides are single-shot (except for Russians...), and shotguns/rifles are used more in suicides than they are used in murder.