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This backgrounder discusses US gun control law and compares it to gun control legislation in other democracies, namely, Canada, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Japan. The author notes that although there are gun control advocates who highlight the stricter gun laws and lower incidents of gun violence in these countries, many others say that such correlation does not prove causation and that rates of gun crime in the US have, in fact, plunged over the last two decades.