and how many of those guns were owned BEFORE the act was repealed???
Posted on 10/20/2008 12:45:08 PM PDT by neverdem
Since Assault Weapons Ban Lifted, At Least 163 Dead, 185 Wounded, 15 Police Officers Dead, 23 Wounded
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the four years since the federal assault weapons ban expired on September 15, 2004, at least 163 people have been killed and 185 wounded with military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, including at least 38 police officers killed or wounded, according to a report being issued today by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Restrictions on assault weapons, which drew support from Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, have been addressed by both major candidates for President: "Senator Barack Obama has stated as recently as his convention acceptance speech that it is imperative that criminals be denied the use of assault weapons," the report says. "Senator John McCain, who has opposed the NRA on gun shows and other issues, has been firm in his opposition to an assault weapon ban."
The report outlines how the availability of assault weapons has altered the balance of power on urban streets between police and criminals, endangering police officers and causing a growing number of police departments to use assault weapons to match the firepower they face. The report also explores the ties between terrorism and assault weapons.
"Our communities are less safe today than they were four years ago, when devastating weapons like AK-47s were not as easily available to thugs and other dangerous people," said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center. "We urge policymakers to take action now to get these weapons off the streets."
The Brady Center report is entitled Mass Produced Mayhem, a phrase used by federal law enforcement officials to describe the guns back...
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No you cannot. Since the Volkner-McClure act of 1986 you are banned from purchasing any fully automatic or burst fire capable weapon that has been manufactured after April 19th 1986.
You can buy a vintage M-16 and modify it to M4 standards but you won't get the the same thing as what our soldiers and Marines are carrying.
I despise Sarah Brady too, but purchasing a firearm to give as a gift is not a "straw purchase". And it shouldn't be.
Buy them now, you may need them and it will be to late soon.
It’s all fun and games until someone puts an eye out.
Somebody find the FBI statistics for type of firearm used. I know they’re around, I just don’t at all know how to find them.
Anyone else notice that the gun stores ARE PACKED????????
Restrictions on assault weapons, which drew support from Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, have been addressed by both major candidates for President: "Senator Barack Obama has stated as recently as his convention acceptance speech that it is imperative that criminals be denied the use of assault weapons," the report says. "Senator John McCain, who has opposed the NRA on gun shows and other issues, has been firm in his opposition to an assault weapon ban."Thanks neverdem. How many were killed during the ban? And why, if the President supports such a ban, hasn't the DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS SINCE EARLY 2007 reimplemented the ban? Looks like another addition to the stinking pile of failure by those mealy-mouthed a-holes and their partisan media shills.
The first commercially mass-produced semi auto rifle was the Remington model 8 (later modified as the model 81) which hit the market in—1908. This must have caused the well-known great crime wave of 1909. /sarc.
Blogger posts Straight Talk Express Shot at (?)
Working for the Working-Class Vote (Will gun-toting, churchgoing white guys vote for Barack Obama?)
Biden says he would not restrict gun ownership "And legislation in relation to assault weapons doesn’t affect hunters or sportsmen."
2 gun-control bills introduced in Council (PA) Thanks rats!
The “stopping power” of a 2-3 ton automobile/SUV, at 30 mph, is pretty damned impressive when compared to the stopping power of a round from a sport utility rifle.
and how many of those guns were owned BEFORE the act was repealed???
And since it's not law abiding citizens who kill people with assault weapons, it would be a pretty good guess that the criminals would have got them anyways, lifting the ban notwithstanding.
It's called the black market, something the liberals deliberately overlook.
I’m surprised you’re the only one on this thread who has mentioned this so far.
Yes, when you see firearms only as tools of senseless violence then any shooting death is a tragedy. Even the death of someone who really, really needed killing.
I think it is only fair to calculate the value to society of perps killed. Certainly their deaths spared innocent lives they would have taken in the future, if they were still on the loose.
For all we know, a straight count of lives lost versus lives saved might change the loss into a net gain.
How many of the purported assault weapon deaths were from weapons sold AFTER the ban was lifted, that would have been prevented by the ban?
A tiny fraction I’d guess.
Including a brick, chunk of concrete or concrete block, a rock, or the prototype assault weapon, the jawbone of an ass.
But the moronic sheeple are duped.............
i’ve explained to a couple of them and gotten thru. one, i showed my ar and a friends ar side by side. they couldn’t see the difference (high cap mag, flash hider, bayonette lug). we flabbergasted that mine was legal and the one next to it wouldn’t be.
showed one person the difference using a handgun. just by swapping mags, “legal, illegal, legal, illegal”
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