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In the Federated States of Micronesia (population 124,000), of the seven homicides between 1997 and 2001, none were committed with a gun. Nor did any of the 493 assaults recorded by police during the same period involve a firearm.

[Source: Personal correspondence with Lt. Lino Amor, Dept. of Justice, FSM, 13 May 2002.]

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