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a. From 1974-1976, before law took effect, the homocide rate dropped 30%.
b. 380 of the city's 382 firearm-related homocides were commited with handguns.
c. 383 of the city's 382 firearm-related homocides were commited with handguns .
d. D.C.'s homocide tripled between 1976 (the last year before the ban took effect, and 1991, when the homocide peaked.
e. All of the city's 368 firearm related homocides were commited with handguns.
g. 304 of the city's 309 firearm related homocides were commited with handguns.
(source Washington D.C. Police).
Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago imposed a handgun registration requirement in 1968, the restriction had no effect on the total homocide rate percentages:.
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974.
158 212 262 274 334 409 390 398 459 464.
40% 42% 47% 42% 47% 51% 47% 56% 53% 48% .
After homocides peaked in 1974, they declined until the 1980s. In April 1982, a law prohibiting possesion of handguns not previously registered with the Chicago police department took effect. The total annual handgun homocide murders fluctuated for several years, then sharply rose:.
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993.
254 290 289 261 285 260 371 417 513 542 534 551.
28% 40% 39% 39% 38% 38% 56% 56% 60% 58% 57% 65%.
Oak Park Illinois.
A Chicago suburb, despite burglary and other violent crimes trends in other suburbs rates rose sharply in the Oak Park after the ban on handgun sales in 1977. Between 1997-1984 (all facts and figures from Chicago city and county police).
Aggravated .
Homocide Robbery Assualt Burglary .
Oak Park +58% +83% +113% +109% .
U.S. Suburbs -13% -5% +5% -19% U.S. -9% +8% +17% -12% .
Kennesaw, Georigia.
in 1982, Kennesaw passed an ordinance "to provide for the civil defense of the city of Kennesaw, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants.
