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Evidence demonstrates that background checks save lives. For example, in the fourteen states that already require background checks for all gun sales:Read more at DemandAPlan
- Gun trafficking is 48 percent lower than in states that fail to require background checks for all handgun sales.3
- In 2010, the rate of women murdered by an intimate partner with a gun was 38 percent lower than in other states, while the rate murdered by other means was nearly identical.4
