“And yet fully automatic AK-47s and AR-15s are NEVER used in committing crime.”
I don’t know about that, since I’m always seeing the actors who think that all guns should be banned are always using fully automatic weapons in their movies .....
But since the guns almost all of us own do not have a `select-fire’ feature (full auto/semi-auto), semi-automatic firearms don’t satisfy the definition of an “assault rifle/weapon.
And the last figure I recall, these non-assault rifle ARs and AKs are used in less than 2% of all firearm crimes.
Class 3 Weapons Crime Numbers
Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin
It might suprise you to learn that “machine guns” are not as evil as some would lead you to believe. Watching TV, Movies and the news reports, you might think that there are violent crimes involving fully automatic weapons every weekend.
How many deaths would you say were attributed to class 3 weapons in 2010?
How many deaths would you say in the last decade were attributed to class 3 weapons?
How many civilians were killed with class 3 weapons since the ban was instituted?
Do you have you numbers ready? Well, there isn’t a true clearing house for all of these numbers and there are some discrprencies in the reports, but the numbers are staggering.
According to GunCite.com, in 1995 there were about 240,000 “machine guns” registered with the ATF. About half of those are registered to private civilians with the rest belonging to police and military.
GunCite.com says that there have been 2 crimes committed by legal owners of “machine guns”. The first was committed by a policeman in Dayton, Ohio in 1988. The second occurred in 1992 and little information can be found about this one.
http://www.class3weaponslicense.com/162/class-3-weapons-crime-numbers