Think you'll find that 'less guns equals less gun crime' at least as far as the US is concerned.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/f...uns-and-death/
These US centric findings are probably influenced by high handgun sales/ownership and not relevant elsewhere (such as Finland, Sweden and Norway with high gun ownership)
danger mouse highlighted the nub of it above and hard to see how it could have gone another way in NZ.
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