It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially
since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.
Not exact matches
Negligible effect on
gun homicides, although neither Australia nor New Zealand have experience a mass shooting
since then.
The ban worked: A recent systematic review of studies evaluating access to
guns and its association with suicide and
homicide identified no relevant studies published
since 2005.
Whilst the rate of
homicide has remained fairly constant
since 1990, violent crime has increased due in some measure to the increase in knife and
gun crime and to the change in statistical recording.