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Did the 1994 assault weapons ban work?
TL;DR: A very tiny bit. Criminals just switched to other large-capacity magazines. However, it dramatically prevented arbitrary mass shootings by the mentally deranged.
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I was curious about this so I went and looked at stats. Here is a graph on homicides by weapon type over time. I have left off the years at the bottom.
The exercise: point to which year the assault weapons ban took place on this graph. Hint, the assault weapons are in the green category.
