Australia’s homicide rate was already so low (see chart above) it would have been difficult to pull a statistically significant reduction out of any policy, due to small sample size alone. However, their suicide rate, while ALSO miles better than ours, was a big enough sample size to analyze. Yes, I realize mass shootings and other rare events* trigger such laws, but suicide & domestic violence are the most affected by them, simply because the numbers are higher. (And I support most of the restrictions I’ve seen suggested, and some I haven’t seen suggested).

* “Rare” is relative. In the US, there’s currently one shooting at or near a school every 60 hours. Sometimes rare in a statistical sense is still not rare enough.