Anti-Gun Researchers Can’t Prove Higher Gun Sales Caused More Homicides, But They’re Not Letting That Stop Them

As clear as the link between new guns and gun violence appears, the difficulty comes in trying to show a connection to the rise in homicides specifically, as the ATF’s data do not enable the sort of precision researchers would need to confirm that link.

The ATF’s data do not specify time to crime for the subset of firearms that were recovered in homicides; everything is grouped together and cannot be disaggregated.

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