[chudogg]

Well it says that the VPC modified the Congress's definition of "Assualt weapon" to suit their own purposes. What if instead of using congress's defintion of "Assualt weapons" as containing multiple cosmetic features, and instead used only one of those cosmetic features, such as pistol grips, and in their view, all weapons with pistol grips became assualt weapons. Does an "assault weapon" have to be a rifle? Or can the VPC claim that a handgun is an assualt weapon because it has a pistol grip, thus explaining the inflated statisitic.

[coloradan]

AWs certainly don't have to be rifles, consider the TEC-9 and for that matter Glocks. However, I don't the the VPC includes all handguns in its own list of AWs because otherwise the number would be a lot higher than 20%. For example, I don't think they include revolvers. To answer your earlier question, I don't know if anyone knows how the VPC came up with that number, and I don't think anyone will easily be able to find out, however. But, it would be nice to say that >21% of citizens defending themselves from criminals did so with AWs, people which the VPC would apparently prefer were killed instead of having the ability to fight back.