The Law Center to Prevent Gun Deaths and the Brady Campaign produced a 0 to 100 scoring system to rate the comprehensiveness of gun laws in each state. According to the visualization below, the states with assault weapons bans achieve between 72.5 (Hawaii) and a 93.5 (California) on the scale, and also cluster on the lower end of the fatalities spectrum. The spread across states is dramatic β Alaska, with a gun laws score of 7, has 19.8 gun deaths per 100,000 people.
While the CDC is still unable to research gun violence, Californiaβs announcement that it will fund its own studies suggests more comprehensive data on the effects of bans may be available in the future.
