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Violent crimes did fall after the National Firearms Agreement, but they were already in decline as early as 1991. It's hard to gauge what effect the ban actually had, especially since compliance is estimated to be only about 20%
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For the sake of accuracy, taking the level of overall murder from the date of the Australian NF, the US murder rate fell quite a bit more.
Ie Australia had X murder rate and ended with 0.75X and the US had Y murder and ended with 0.5Y during the same period.
Also the claims on Australian overall suicide dropping are problematic, there deaths in types of accidents, mainly drug overdoses, but others as well, of the type that are "hidden suicides," went WAY up. Australia also changed its probative burdens on suicide findings right about the time of NFA, which researchers there say is also causing an serious undercount as well. It is likely NFA had no net impact on suicide, but simply altered the means.
Dare we also mention Australia had its constitution written for it by another country? Or that it has less protections on several rights. I wonder if Obama and Holder would worship its evidentiary rules?