California Universal Background Checks and Gun Ban: No Positive Effect
By Dean Weingarten
Ammoland.com
January 4th. 2020
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A study of the effects of California's institution of Universal Background Checks, along with a state ban of firearms ownership for people who had committed a violent misdemeanor, has been published in The Annals of Epidemiology, volume 30, February, 2020.
The study covered a decade before the laws were passed to a decade after the laws was passed. It found the laws had no effect on firearms homicides or suicides. Here is the abstract of the paper, from Science Direct: