Author

Michael J. Klein

Michael J. Klein

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, New York University

COMMENTARY

Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here’s what the data tells us

By: - June 16, 2022

A spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons – covering the types of guns used in both the recent Buffalo grocery attack and that on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Such a prohibition has been in place before. […]