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In reply to the discussion: how many of you CA residents plan to register your "assault rifles" [View all]needledriver
(836 posts)49. You forgot to quote this paragraph.
In his new NCVS study, Hemenway also found that defensive gun use is exceedingly infrequent. While smaller private surveys estimated that there are up to 2.5 million DGUs on an annual basis, the NCVS data indicates that victims used guns defensively in less than 1 percent of attempted or completed crimes, with an annual total of less than 70,000
All that article claims is that DGU is a minimum of 1600 and is somewhere less than 70000 per year.
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