Database

This page provides a database of information for anyone who wants to view it – elected representatives, firearm owners, media and more. It revolves around facts and statistics around the real extent of gun control and gun crime.

PDF Factsheets

QUICK FACTS – read first
Australia – Gun Homicides
Australia – Gun Suicides
Australia – Homicides (any method)
Australia – Proportion of Homicides Committed With a Gun
Australia – Rate of All Gun Deaths per 100,000 People
Australia – Rate of Gun Homicide per 100,000 People
Australia – Rate of Gun Suicide per 100,000 People
Australia – Rate of Homicide per 100,000 People (any method)
Australia – Rate of Suicide per 100,000 People (any method)
Australia – Rate of Unintentional Gun Death per 100,000 People
Australia – Suicides (any method)
Australia – Total Number of Gun Deaths
GUN CONTROL AND HOMICIDE: THE SHOOTERS’ PERSPECTIVE
Fact sheet – Gun Laws and 200 Lives per Year
Article from 1995 – New National Gun Laws
An Investigation Into The Use Of Sound Moderators On Firearms For Game And Feral Management In New South Wales -Edith Cowan University

Website sources

 

Bricknell, S., & Mouzos, J. (2007). Firearms theft in Australia 2005-2006. Research and Public Policy Series No. 82, Australian Insititute of Criminology. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/82
Bricknell, S. (2009). Firearm theft in Australia 2007-08. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra.
Custom data tables. AIC NHMP 2007-08 computer file. Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
Dearden, J., & Jones, W. (2008). Homicide in Australia: 2006-07 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra.
Mouzos, J., & Houliaris, T. (2006). Homicide in Australia: 2004-05 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra.
NOUS Group (2007). National Firearms Management System: Business case project. Canberra.
Vireuda, M., & Payne, J. (2010). Homicide in Australia: 2007-08 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra.
Vos, T., et al. (2010). Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention (ACE-Prevention): Final Report. University of Queensland, Brisbane and Deakin University, Melbourne.
Baker, J., & McPhedran, S. (2007). Gun laws and sudden death: Did the Australian firearms legislation of 1996 make a difference? British Journal of Criminology, 47: 455-469.
De Leo, D., Dwyer, J., Firman, D., & Neulinger, K. (2003). Trends in hanging and firearm suicide rates in Australia: substitution of method? Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour, 33(2): 151-164.
Klieve, H., Barnes, M., & De Leo, D. (2009). Controlling firearms use in Australia: Has the 1996 gun law reform produced the decrease in rates of suicide with this method? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44: 285-292.
Lee, W-S, & Suardi, S. (2010). The Australian firearms buyback and its effect on gun deaths. Contemporary Economic Policy, 28(1): 65-79.
Vos, T., et al. (2010). Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention (ACE-Prevention). Final Report. University of QLD, Brisbane, and Deakin University, Melbourne.

Buy Back Statistics and Australia Stock of Firearms compiled in 1998

 

Infographics

 

 

Good sources

Baker, J. & McPhedran, S., “Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference?”, British Journal of Criminology, 2006, Vol. 47, No. 3.

Benson, B. & Mast, B., “Privately Produced General Deterrence”, The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.

Brief for Amicus Curiae Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Inc., Supreme Court of the United States: District of Columbia et al v. Dick Anthony Heller, No. 07-290.

Bronars, S. & Lott, J., “Criminal Deterrence, Geographic Spillovers, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns”, American Economic Review, May 1998.

Chapman, S. et al., “Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms: Faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings”, Injury Prevention, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 6.

David, G., “More Guns, Less Crime Thesis Rests on Flawed Statistical Design, Scholars Argue”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2003, Vol. 49, No. 35.

Halbrook, S., “Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews”, Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2000, No. 3.

Kates, D. & Mauser, G., “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?: A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence”, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30, No. 2.

Kates, D., “Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment”. Michigan Law Review, 1983, Vol. 82, No. 2.

Kleck, G. & Gertz, M., “Carrying Guns for Protection: Results from the National Self-Defense Survey”, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, May 1998, Vol. 35, No. 2.

Kleck, G., & Patterson, E., “The impact of gun control and gun ownership levels on violence rates”. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1993, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Kleck, G., & Kates, D., 2001, Armed, Prometheus Books.

Kleck, G., “Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun”, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1995, Vol. 86, No. 1.

Kleck, G., “Firearms, Violence, and Self-Protection”, Science, 9 September 2005, Vol. 309, No. 5741.

Kleck, G., 1991, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne.

Kleck, G.; & Patterson, E., “The impact of gun control and gun ownership levels on violence rates”. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1993, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Kovandzic, T. et al, “The Impact of “Shall-Issue” Concealed Handgun Laws on Violent Crime Rates: Evidence From Panel Data for Large Urban Cities”, Homicide Studies, November 2005, Vol. 9.

LaPierre, W., 1995, Guns, Crime and Freedom, HarperPerennial, New York.

Lawson, J., “New National Gun Laws – Are They Cost Effective?”, IPA Review, December 1999.

Lott, J. & Whitley, J., “A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, October 2001.

Lott, J., “The Concealed-Handgun Debate,” Journal of Legal Studies, January 1998.

Lott, J., “What a Balancing Test Will Show for Right-to-Carry Laws”, University of Maryland Law Review, 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4.

Lott, J., 2010, More guns, less crime understanding crime and gun-control laws (3rd. ed.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Ludwig, J., “Gun Self-Defence and Deterrence”, Crime and Justice, 2000, Vol. 27.

Marvell, T., “The Impact of Banning Juvenile Gun Possession,” The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.

Mauser, G., “A History of Failure?”, The Dorchester Review, December 2012.

Mauser, G., “Armed Self Defence: The Canadian Case”, Journal of Criminal Justice, 1996, Vol. 24.

Mauser, G., “The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales”, Public Policy Sources, Fraser Institute Occasional Paper, November 2003.

Mauser, G., 1995, Gun Control is not Crime Control, Critical Issues Bulletin, Fraser Forum.

Mauser, G., June 2005, Are Guns Really More Dangerous than Other Weapons?, Fraser Forum.

Mauser, G., June 2007, Hubris in the North: The Canadian Firearms Registry, The Fraser Institute.

Mauser, G., October 2007, Some International Evidence on Gun Bans and Murder Rates, Fraser Forum.

McDowall, D., “Firearms and Self-Defence”, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1995, Vol. 539.

Mustard, D., “The Impact of Gun Laws on Police Deaths,” The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.

Olson, D., & Maltz, M., “Right-to-carry concealed weapons laws and homicide in large U.S. counties: the effect on weapon types, victim characteristics, and victim-offender relationships,” The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.

Orient, J., “Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue: A Physician’s Response”, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, February 2013, Vol. 18, No. 3.

Plassmann, F., & Whitley, J., ‘Confirming “More Guns, Less Crime”‘, Stanford Law Review, 2003.

Prabha Unnithan, N. et al, “Gun Felons and Gun Regulation: Offenders’ Views About and Reactions to “Shall-Issue” Policies for Carrying Concealed Weapons”, Criminal Justice Policy Review, June 2008, Vol. 19.

Reuter, P. & Mouzos, J., 2003, “Australia: A Massive Buyback of Low-Risk Guns”, in Ludwig, J. & Cook, P., Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence, Brookings Institution Press, pp. 121–156.

Tahmassebi, S., “Gun Control and Racism”, George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, 1991, Vol. 2, No. 1.

 

USA relevant statistics:

http://actionamerica.org/guns/guns1.shtml

http://gunsfacts.blogspot.com/2013/04/police-arent-safer-than-armed-civilians.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/02/21/disarming-the-myths-promoted-by-the-gun-control-lobby/

Civilians are Safer than Police

https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110209-mexicos-gun-supply-and-90-percent-myth

Counting Mexico’s Guns

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/14/disarming-realities-as-gun-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet

/http://extranosalley.com/?p=30635

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/08/30/harvard-gun-study-no-decrease-in-violence-with-ban/

FBI: More guns, less violent crime

https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

https://www.gunowners.org/sk0701.htm

Debunking Mother Jones’ ’10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down’

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent

http://gunsnfreedom.com/just-a-few-examples-where-gun-owners-stopped-mass-shootings-in-public/

Man With Concealed Carry Permit Saves Four People From Crazed Gunman

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/19/researcher-reaffirms-at-least-760000-defensive-gun-uses-a-year/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/gun-crime-drops-but-americans-think-its-worse/2139421/

FBI Director Testifies He’s Never Had Problems With Concealed Carriers [VIDEO]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/?hc_location=ufi

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/violent-crime/violent-crime-topic-page/violentcrimemain_final

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/33-dead-130-injured-china-knife-wielding-spree-n41966

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/10-potential-mass-shootings-that-were-stopped-by-someone-wit#.uf84pZl3W