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Forget Australia's Gun Laws. American Reform Advocates Have Their Own Island to Study.

Kevin Mahnken

November 11, 2015 |

The Trace |

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Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

Research shows that higher rates of gun ownership lead to higher rates of violent crime - countless examples in the continental United States seem to support this. But Hawaii, with some of the highest gun sale numbers in the country, has rock-bottom gun violence rates - universal background checks and the natural ocean barrier that discourages smuggling are just some of the ways they've achieved this.

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