Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Massive Gun "Buyback" Doubled Fall In Australian Gun Deaths / Medical News Today, 18 Dec 2006

http://digbig.com/4qjpb
"The chances of gun death in Australia dropped twice as steeply after 700,000 guns were destroyed in a national firearm "buyback" and amnesty, reveals a decade long study in Injury Prevention. The study tracks the 10 years following the introduction of gun law reform in Australia between 1996 and 1998."

Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings
Injury Prevention 2006;12:365-372; doi:10.1136/ip.2006.013714
http://ip.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/12/6/365
S Chapman, P Alpers, K Agho and M Jones