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http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaign ... lt-weaponsWhat Law Enforcement Says About Assault Weapons
Following several high-profile mass shootings and attacks on law enforcement involving military-style assault weapons, Congress enacted the federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994. The ban expired on September 13, 2004 without any consideration or action by Congress, despite the pleas of law enforcement officials across the country. Today, our nation's police find themselves increasingly outgunned by criminals armed with sophisticated firearms and detachable, high-capacity ammuniton magazines (the manufacture of magazines holding more than 10 rounds was prohibited under the federal ban). The following timeline examines law enforcement's experience with assault weapons since the federal ban lapsed:
March 2, 2011—"There is no reason that a peaceful society based on the rule of law needs its citizenry armed with 30-round [ammunition] magazines," states Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck during a news conference." Such magazines transform a gun "into a weapon of mass death rather than a home protection-type device," Beck notes.
February 26, 2011—Referring to increasing seizures of semiautomatic assault weapons that are trafficked in from outside states, Brockton (Massachusetts) Police Department Captain Emanuel Gomes says, "We're literally outgunned. You're talking about the kind of firepower that can go through vehicles, through vests, and that can literally go through a house."
January 16, 2011—After one of his officers is ambushed by a teenager wielding a semiautomatic AR-15 and fired at 26 times, Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty tells The Oklahoman, "There are just more and more assault rifles out there, and it is becoming a bigger threat to law enforcement each day. They are outgunned." Citty states that he sees "no practical reason" why a civilian would need an AR-15 or similiar military-style weapon.
November 21, 2010—Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda states,"In my opinion, [AK-47 rifles and other high-powered semiautomatic assault weapons] exist for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to kill."
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LOL wrote: washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/fbi-h...han-rifles-shotguns/
Actually Fred's numbers are technically right for 2011.
Not really hard to find on google. LOL
For whatever it is worth.
FBI 2011 murder stats
rifles 323
clubs hammers 496
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... a-table-11
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LOL wrote: washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/fbi-h...han-rifles-shotguns/
Actually Fred's numbers are technically right for 2011.
Not really hard to find on google. LOL
For whatever it is worth.
FBI 2011 murder stats
rifles 323
clubs hammers 496
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... a-table-11
Funny how they ignore the number of handgun deaths and limit the argument to rifles (and not "other guns")
How many hammers have high-capacity magazines so you can hit 3 or 4 people a second? Why did I single out rifles? Because the current media hysteria is about assault rifles when as a percent of homicides they are not used nearly as often as handguns.
And if hammers are more effective than rifles, why don't we have a National Hammer Association to promote them for self defense?
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Yes the Obama administration will stop the slaughter. The same administration that armed Mexican drug lords with assualt rifles in Fast and Furious? More incompetence from Team Barack.LadyJazzer wrote: You actually think regurgitating that cherry-picked crap from the gun-nut echo chamber is going to impress anyone?
Jus' keep doin' what yer doin'.....
Yep, I'll keep sending money to the Brady Bunch... I'll stop the slaughter any way I can...
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