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Are more gun law associated with a lower homicide rate?
At the Vokolh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh demonstrates that States' Brady Campaign grades have no association with their homicide rates, or with rates for homicide plus accidental gun deaths.
Denton Bramwell recently updated his 2006 study of the same issue, and got the same results as nine years ago: no correlation. Brady "As," "Fs," etc. can have high or low rates, with no pattern discernible.
Now, it's (quite) possible that Brady ratings do not correlate with strictness of gun control. The items evaluated are chosen on a political basis ("do we want this now"?). But at the least these results suggest that policymakers would be foolish to base enactments on Brady proposals.
See "Crime Rates Falling Everywhere" at Billll's Idle Mind (February 24, 2013).
http://billllsidlemind.blogspot.com/2013/02/crime-rates-falling-everywhere.html
There is a comparison of homicide rates in gun-free prisons to the country at large, from 1980 to 2010.
There is also a link to a 15-page paper -- mostly scatter charts, so it's a quick read -- comparing Brady grades to violent crime rates, homicide rates, and homicide rates committed with a firearm in 2010 and 2011.