Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Fact: 43% of gun dealers had no inventory and sold no guns at all. Congressional testimony documented that the large number of low-volume gun dealers is a direct result of BATF policy. The BATF once prosecuted gun collectors who sold as few as three guns per year at gun shows, claiming that they were unlicensed, [...]

KENNESAW, Ga - Several Kennesaw officials attribute a drop in crime in the city over the past two decades to a law that requires residents to have a gun in the house.
In 1982, the Kennesaw City Council unanimously passed a law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm with ammunition.
The ordinance states [...]

Fact: 94% of law enforcement officials believe that citizens should be able to purchase firearms for self-defense and sporting purposes.1
Fact: 65.8% believe there should be no gun rationing, such as ‘one gun per month’ schemes.
Fact: 97.9% of officers believe, that through illegal means, criminals are able to obtain any type of firearm.
Fact: “Gun control has [...]

Fact: This claim by Cease Fire Maryland includes firearms never used in crimes. Some
examples of firearms traced include:

47 firearms found at the private residence of a person who passed-away from natural causes, and which were never used in any crime.

Firearms temporarily taken from owners under court Emergency Evaluation Petitions (the firearms were not used in [...]

Myth: One out of five police officers killed are killed with assault weapons1
Fact: This “study” included firearms not on the former Federal “assault weapons” list. Including various legal firearms2 inflated the statistics almost 100%.
Fact: Only 1% of police officers murdered were killed using “assault weapons”. They were twice as likely to be killed with [...]

A well researched study by Texas A&M in conjunction with the National Center for Policy Analysis sheds some light on the gun control myth:

Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws.
The study examines 15 popular gun control myths and the facts against each view. The conclusion sums it up nicely:
Although firearms are [...]

Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day.1 Often the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Fact: It seems to be slowing down property crime (especially burglaries). The chart shows the legal handgun supply in America (mainly in civilian hands) to the property crime [...]

Fact: Only 0.7% of convicts bought their firearms at gun shows. 39.2% obtained them from illegal street dealers.1
Fact: Less than 1% of “crime guns” were obtained at gun shows2. This is a reduction from a 1997 study that found 1.7% - 2% of guns used in criminal offenses were purchased at gun shows.3
Fact: The FBI [...]