[MileHi]

“It’s been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country. To be clear, this bill saves lives,” Feinstein said in her announcement of the bill. “When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent.”

Of course, none of that is true.

[Campion]

Like an AWB could have ANY effect on the number of "gun massacres" committed with handguns.

The number of people killed annually with rifles of ALL types is still well below the number killed with blunt objects.