http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-8463957.html
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Figures out next month are expected to confirm the long-term decline in gun crime which resulted in 39 people shot dead in 2011/12 compared with a high of 96 ten years earlier.
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But improved intelligence-led operations, poor quality guns and munitions, better community links to divert gang activity, and improved surgery for gunshot victims have all contributed to reduced deaths from gun violence, according to experts and police.
A comparative shortage of guns in circulation has triggered a price spike in the underworld firearms market, according to detectives.
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