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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 is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

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

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 no current non-metal firearm not reasonably detectable by present technology and methods in use at our airports today, nor to my knowledge, is anyone on the threshold of developing such a firearm.”²

Incidentally, Glock is one of the favorite handguns of police departments because it is lightweight, thanks to the polymer frame.

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

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 multiple gunshot wound victims.”²

Fact: “The public safety benefits of the 1994 ban have not yet been demonstrated.”³

Fact: “The ban triggered speculative price increases and ramped-up production of the banned firearms”⁴

Fact: “The ban … ramped-up production of the banned firearms prior to the law’s implementation”⁵ and thus increased the total supply over the following decade.

Fact: The Brady Campaign claims that “After the 1994 ban, there were 18% fewer “assault weapons” traced to crime in the first eight months of 1995 than were traced in the same period in 1994”. However they failed to note (and these are mentioned in the NIJ study) that:

1. Assault weapons” traces were minimal before the ban (due to their infrequent use in crimes), so an 18% change enters the realm of statistical irrelevancy.
2. Fewer “assault weapons” were available to criminals because collectors bought-up the available supply before the ban.

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

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 restrictions were few in the United States and the number of legally held handguns exceeded those on the Canadian side by a factor of 10, rates of homicide were virtually identical.²

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

Fact: “The National Fraternal Order of Police does not support any Federal requirement to register privately owned firearms with the Federal government,” the group said. “And, even if such a database is limited to firearms manufactured in the future, the cost to create and maintain such a system, with such small chances that it would be used to solve a firearm crime, suggests to the F.O.P. that these are law enforcement dollars best spent elsewhere.”¹

Fact: “We in law enforcement know it will not, does not, cannot work. Then, no one has considered the hundreds of millions of guns in the US that have never been registered or tested or printed.”²

Fact: “One, the barrel is one of the most easily changed parts of many guns and two, the barrel, and the signature it leaves on a bullet is constantly changing.”³

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info

Fact: The National Research Council deemed a national ballistics database as impractical due to practical limitations of current technology for generating and comparing images of ballistic markings.¹

Fact: Maryland’s ballistics database “is not doing anything”² and “has not met the mission statement of the state police.”³ In the first five years of implementation, it failed to lead to any criminal arrest or convictions, despite collecting over 80,000 specimens at a cost of $2,567,633.⁴

Fact: More than 70% of armed career criminals get their guns from “off-the-street sales” and “criminal acts” such as burglaries⁵, and 71% of these firearms are stolen.⁶ Tracing these firearms will not lead to the criminals, as the trail stops at the last legal owner.

Fact: Computer image matching of cartridges fails between 38-62% of the time, depending on whether the cartridges are from the same or different manufacturers.⁷

Fact: “Automated computer matching systems do not provide conclusive results” requiring that “potential candidates be manually reviewed”.⁸

Fact: Criminals currently remove serial numbers from stolen guns to hide their origin. The same simple shop tools can change a ballistic profile within minutes. “The minor alteration required less than 5 minutes of labor”.⁹ Criminals will make changing ballistic profiles part of their standard procedures.

This is an excerpt from “Gun Facts” by Guy Smith, available free from http://www.gunfacts.info