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→Overall crime: →Overall crime: Article is misleading, as it actually concludes the opposite of this footnote -- that weapons bans are effective.
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→Overall crime: Study is about state-level assault weapons bans. Not federal. Irrelevant.
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A 2014 study found no impacts on homicide rates with an assault weapon ban.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/13504851.2013.854294|title = An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates| journal=Applied Economics Letters| volume=21| issue=4| pages=265–267|year = 2014|last1 = Gius|first1 = Mark|s2cid = 154746184}}</ref> A 2014 book published by [[Oxford University Press]] noted that "There is no compelling evidence that [the ban] saved lives."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-checking-feinstein-on-the-assault-weapons-ban|title=Fact-Checking Feinstein on the Assault Weapons Ban|last=Beckett|first=Lois|date=2014-09-24|website=ProPublica|language=en|access-date=2019-07-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274747450|title=The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know. |author1=Philip J. Cook |author2-link=Kristin Goss|author2=Kristin A. Goss |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 }}</ref>
 
A 2013 study showed that the expiration of the FAWB in 2004 "led to immediate violence increases within areas of Mexico located close to American states where sales of assault weapons became legal. The estimated effects are sizable... the additional homicides stemming from the FAWB expiration represent 21% of all homicides in these municipalities during 2005 and 2006."<ref>{{cite journal|last1= Dube|first1= Arindrajit|last2= Dube|first2= Oeindrila|last3= García-Ponce|first3= Omar|title=Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico|journal=American Political Science Review|date=July 10, 2013|volume=107|issue=3|pages=397–417|doi=10.1017/S0003055413000178|hdl=10419/69479|s2cid= 9252246|url= https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp7098|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
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