Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Fact: “…most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.”1
Fact: 11% of police shootings kill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person.2
Fact: Police have trouble keeping their own guns. Hundreds of firearms are missing from the FBI and 449 [...]

Basic to the debates on gun control is the fact that most violent crime is committed by repeat offenders. Dealing with recidivism is key to solving violence.

71% of gunshot victims had previous arrest records.

64% had been convicted of a crime.

Each had an average of 11 prior arrests1.

63% of victims have criminal histories and 73% of [...]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve launched a new free gun classifieds site, GunMarket.us.
This site was created in response to the Reddit Guns community needing a “site like craigslist” to post free gun classifieds. All listings are 100% free, as in free beer. Free image hosting is included [...]

Fact: This figure was concocted to promote an “assault weapons” bill in New York. The classification scheme used encompassed most firearms sold in the U.S. since 1987 (center fire rifles and shotguns holding more than six cartridges, and handguns holding more than 10 rounds). By misclassifying “assault weapons”, they expanded the scope of a non-problem.
This [...]

Fact: Firearms that can be “readily converted” are already prohibited by law.1
Fact: None of the firearms on the list of banned weapons can be readily converted.2
Fact: Only 0.15% of over 4,000 weapons confiscated in Los Angeles in one year were converted, and only 0.3% had any evidence of an attempt to convert.3
This is an excerpt [...]

Fact: There is no such thing as a ‘plastic gun’. This myth started in 19801 when Glock began marketing a handgun with a polymer frame, not the entire firearm. Most of a Glock is metal (83% by weight), detectable in common metal and x-ray detectors. “[D]espite a relatively common impression to the contrary, there is [...]

Fact: “ … we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence.”1
Fact: The ban covered only 1.39% of the models of firearms on the market, so the ban’s effectiveness is automatically limited.
Fact: “The ban has failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or [...]

Fact: Most of these laws were enacted in the post World War I period to prevent civil uprisings as had occurred in Russia. A report of “Committee on the Control of Firearms,” written by the British Home Office officials in 1918, was the basis for registration in the U.K., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.1
Fact: Though [...]