While violent crime has not ended in Australia, murders are down, and, even more dramatically, there has not been a single mass shooting since 1996 in which three or more people died (the definition used in many studies of mass shootings). Before the crackdown, there had been 13 such massacres in 18 years.
这一政策起到了效果。尽管澳大利亚的暴力犯罪并未因此销声匿迹，但谋杀案有所下降，更重要的是，1996年之后再未发生过死亡人数三人或以上的大规模枪击时间（3人死亡是很多研究中所定义的大规模枪击事件标准）。而在打击枪击保有之前，18年中澳大利亚发生了13起大规模杀戮事件。