Posted on 09/21/2006 2:27:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Hunters brace for another gun fight
I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of those weapons were seized as a result of some lame domestic abuse or divorce proceeding.
So why don't they deport that assault rifle to New Jersey?
Blaming rifles for violence is like blaming forks for Rosie O'Donnel's fat ass.
Clearly, these dangerous guns should be locked up longer! Just say no to soft sentences for guns that kill people!
Did I miss it or were nearly 100% of the crimes committed by CRIMINALS with priors, and illegal gun ownership?
What percent of these "crimes every 48 hours" were committed by hunters and homeowners?
just so ya know, I did not bother to read the entire article ...
I believe that this is completely bogus. I very rarely hear of an assault rifle being used in a crime.
I call absolute BS on this stat.
"Assault pistols"??? Wow, they're inventing whole new categories over there, aren't they?
Hey, gungrabbers - it's either a machine pistol, a submachinegun, or it's a semiautomatic pistol that looks evil. *Nobody* makes an "assault pistol."
They could always make shooting people illegal. That would cover all types of firearms.
Or stolen from police cruisers, for that matter.
I tend to agree... that is closer to the number of real AW (as defined by Federal Law) that are actually USE in a crime nationally. More likely it is 99% that are confiscated reather than really used.
John Lott had it at less than 2% nationally and his number included confiscations as a result of drug raids, etc.
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Pretty loose use of the term "assault weapon".
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Any ugly gun, especially if it is black, is clearly an "assault weapon".
I was going to blame her licker...
It's very hard to walk into a bodega with an assault rifle for a stick up, and then down the street afterwards. Rifles aren't used for stickups or murders for that reason: They're too long and they stand out.
I quite agree with a previous poster that these are undoubtedly additional charges applied to felons who broke some other law not having to do with a gun. Their gun collection (illegal for a felon) just brought another charge.
You can fairly safely assume nobody was killed or injured with these guns, otherwise the grabbers would have highlighted that.
An "assault rifle" being a rifle that does shoot bullets and which IS subsequently used to assault a human being, riiiiight....?!
All guns are beautiful. Except of course anything Chinese. :-)
That's only 180 crimes a year for the entire state. Out of how many total crimes, I wonder.
"Traced to a crime" means that if the victim owned one of these and it was found at the scene of the crime and the BATFE traced it...well...BINGO, they get another bogus hit!
This is the scam they have previously used for "traced to crime" statistics and it seems likely they did it again here. Can anyone confirm?
Time to get technical, because there is some serious misuse of terminology going on here.
In the strictest sense, an assault rifle is a carbine with selective fire capability, i.e. it can be fired in full-auto or semi-auto mode depending on a switch. Since these are machine guns under U.S. law, they are not widely sold (very expensive).
The term "semiautomatic assault rifle" when taken in this context, is oxymoronic.
The term "assault weapon" is so vague as to be virtually meaningless, as anything can be used in an assault, even a pot of coffee.
This article is the same old tripe that the anti-freedomers have been foisting on us for the last 18 years. It was BS then and it's BS now.
/soapbox
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