” 2016 investigation by an Australian newspaper, the Age, found that gun-related crimes in Melbourne had doubled over the previous five years” with these statistics coming 22 years after the band of all semi-automatic weapons including pump shotguns but the gun crime rate did not change just the fact that it did eliminate some mass shootings for a period of time it still did not stop gun crime

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