The FBI has released figures demonstrating that over the course of 15 years, NICS background checks for gun ownership have increased 82 per cent, while violent crime has dropped by 18 per cent.

In the 2014 version of Crime in the United States, the estimated number of reported violent crimes dropped 0.2 per cent and the estimated number of property crimes decreased 4.3 per cent compared with 2013 statistics. Homicides committed with firearms in 2014 are down 3.9 per cent on a year-to-year basis, contesting the view that gun ownership creates, rather than eliminates, violent crime. While handguns were consistently the weapon of choice, rifles accounted for a mere 3 per cent of murders in 2014, lower than murders committed with knives, blunt objects, and brute human force.

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