And just how many criminals have used an “assault weapon” in the commission of a crime?
If one is going to define any semi-automatic weapon as an assault weapon, probably most of them. If fact, under this defination when my father gave me his Browning shotgun as my 16 birthday gift (the same gun his father gave him on his 16 birthday) he was giving me an assault weapon. The only thing it ever assaulted though was deer, rabbits and ground hogs.