Banning large-capacity gun magazines could reduce mass shooting deaths: study

Attacks with large-capacity magazines had more than a 60% higher average death toll, researchers write in the American Journal of Public Health. "One of the strategies for surviving an active shooting is to 'run, hide, fight.' For those in the line of fire, the opportunity to flee, take cover, or counterattack is expanded if an interruption in the shooting occurs," said Louis Klarevas of Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City, who led the study. In 1994, Congress enacted a federal assault weapons ban, which limited these types of magazines, but the ban expired a decade later.

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