Posts under ‘Assault Weapons’

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.
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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
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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: 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 [...]

Fact: Recall the Rodney King riots in that anti-gun city of Los Angeles. Every major news network carried footage of Korean store owners sitting on the roofs of their stores, armed with “assault weapons”.1 Those were the stores that did not get burned to the ground, and those were the people that were not dragged [...]

Fact: Only 8% of criminals use anything that is classified (even incorrectly) as an “assault weapon”1, though less than 1% claimed to use these firearms when committing crimes.2
Fact: Criminals are as likely to carry single shot (derringer-type) handguns as they are to carry “assault weapons”.3
Fact: “Assault rifles have never been an issue in law enforcement. [...]

Fact: In 1994, before the Federal “assault weapons ban”, you were eleven (11) times more likely to be beaten to death than to be killed by an “assault weapon”.1 In the first year since the ban was lifted, murders declined 3.6%, and violent crime 1.7%.2
Fact: Nationally, “assault weapons” were used in 1.4% of crimes involving [...]