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You should probably contact Jim Pitkow (part of Ron Conway's gun violence thing); they would probably contribute funding, since "lack of good studies" was one of their major findings.

The questions I'd really like to see answered are exploring specific current regulations for effectiveness as well as proposed regulations. i.e. I'd like to see if suppressors have ever been meaningfully used in crime, or if striking them from NFA would have limited crime-increase effects. And if some of the other fairly irrational regulations (parts of US origin requirements under 922(r) for imported non-sporting firearms) make any difference to crime. Or California's .50bmg ban.




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