Homicides

in Washington D.C.
500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 1976 (handguns banned) 1988 1993
Jerey Shapiro, A Gun Ban That Misred, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 15, 2013.

reduce the average number of vicHms per gun murder incident or mulHple gunshot wound vicHms
U.S. Department of JusHce, Impact of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban: 1994-96, at 1 (1999).

AWB failed to

Department of JusHce:

discernible reducHon in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence.

Christopher S. Koper, Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003, at 96 (2004).

There has been no

NaHonal InsHtute of JusHce on AWB:

Where Prisoners Got Firearms 1997

12.10%

1.70%

39.20%

Gun Shows 1.7%

Retail store/ Pawnshop Gun show Friends or family Street/ illegal source

39.60%

U.S. Department of JusHce, Bureau of JusHce StaHsHcs, Firearms Use By Oenders (2001).

Where Prisoners Got Firearms 1991

18.90% 1.90%

40.80%

Gun Shows 1.9%

Retail store/ pawn shop Gun show Friends or family Street/ Illegal source

33.80%

U.S. Department of JusHce, Bureau of JusHce StaHsHcs, Firearms Use By Oenders (2001).