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 Plus I believe Australia's gun violence prevention measures were taken in the late 90's so a 2001 statistic might be a tad skewed.  

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1996 I think, but I wanted to give the laws time to take effect. 2001 was the latest date in the particular report I was looking at. Its actually slightly lower if you use more modern numbers. Approximately 10 murders per million.