The misreporting of figures boils down to this: one set of statistics for violent crime were put in one column -- which still comes under violent crime -- rather than another column within that same category. So, in effect, there is no overall change in violent crime, just the particular category which it was placed within. Yes, it is particularly unfortunate that this happened and doesn't help the case of those who wish to rely on reported crime statistics.

Yes, there has been more injuries from handguns because there is greater use by criminals for which this law never applied ... criminals rarely sign up to handgun bans.