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4 paź 2017 · The new chart covers homicides in Australia from 1996, when the National Firearms Agreement was enacted, through 2013, which is the most recent data available in the annual Australian...
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Each year in Australia hundreds of suicides and homicides are committed with firearms and a number of firearm-related accidental deaths occur. • In 1994 a firearm was used in one in four homicides and one in five suicides.
7 wrz 2021 · The known: Firearm-related violence — self-harm, assaults, accidents, family violence —causes both injury and death, but has not been extensively studied in Australia. The new: During 2002‒2016, the NSW firearm-related injury rate was more than 13 times as high for men as for women.
In the 18 years 1979-1996, the mean annual rate of firearm homicide was 0.57 (95% CI, 0.51-0.63) per 100 000 population. In the 17 years following the announcement of the new gun laws, this rate declined to 0.20 (95% CI, 0.17-0.25) per 100 000 persons.
23 cze 2016 · Here are some of the key findings from the study: Between 1979 and 1996, total firearm deaths in Australia were dropping an average of 3 percent each year. In the 20 years since, they've declined at a rate of 5 percent annually.
The rates per 100 000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws. Conclusions: Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides.
A radical gun law reform occurred in Australia after a gun massacre (35 dead and 18 seriously injured) in April 1996. Semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns and rifles were banned; a tax-funded firearm buyback and amnesties saw over 700 000 guns surrendered from an adult population of about 12 million.
