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 from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info
- U.S. Code title 26, subtitle E, Chapter 53, subchapter B, part 1, section 5845 ↩
- BATF test as reported in the New York Times, April 3, 1989 ↩
- Jimmy Trahin, Los Angeles Detective, Congressional testimony, Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, May 5, 1989, 101st Congress, 1st Session. May 5, 1989. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. p. 379 ↩
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