Everything You Need to Know about ‘Assault’ Weapons in One Chart

National Review ^ | 10/12/2015 | NR Staff

[SeekAndFind]

Gun-control advocates are always talking about a ban on so-called “assault” weapons – but doing so would have no impact on gun violence. As Charles C.W. Cooke wrote yesterday:

It is difficult to overstate just how absurd this is. Even if we were to swallow whole the novel set of definitions that the advocates of “assault”-weapons legislation have imposed upon our national deliberations, the case in favor of their coveted laws would remain all but nonexistent. Between 1994 and 2004, Americans were flatly barred from purchasing or transferring 660 arbitrarily selected semi-automatic firearms and from obtaining any magazine that could hold more than ten rounds. This prohibition had no discernible impact whatsoever. Charged in 1997 with evaluating the short-term impact of the measure, the National Institute of Justice reported bluntly that “the evidence is not strong enough for us to conclude that there was any meaningful effect (i.e., that the effect was different from zero).” A second study – commissioned to coincide with the ban’s expiration in 2004 — calmly echoed this conclusion, while noting for the record that there hadn’t been much of a problem in the first instance. No subsequent inquiry has contradicted these assessments.

In fact, rifles are the least popular killing tools in the United States. Per the FBI, this is how Americans killed each other in 2014:

• Handguns: 5,562 (47 percent)
• Unknown firearms: 2,052 (17 percent)
• Other weapons: 1,610 (13 percent)
• Knives and Cutting Instruments: 1,567 (13 percent)
• Hands, feet, fists, pushing: 660 (6 percent)
• Shotguns: 262 (2 percent) Rifles: 248 (2 percent)

By definition, we cannot know what is inside that “unknown firearms” category. So, for the sake of argument, let’s distribute it proportionately among the existing firearms groups:

• Handguns: 7,442 (62 percent)
• Other weapons: 1,610 (13 percent)
• Knives and Cutting Instruments: 1,567 (13 percent)
• Hands, feet, fists, pushing: 660 (6 percent)
• Shotguns: 350 (3 percent)
• Rifles: 332 (3 percent)

Read Cooke’s full piece HERE.

[rktman]

#factsdontmatter. Remember. :>}

[PLMerite]

They want to eliminate "assault weapons" (military pattern semi-automatic rifles), because that's what "we" would use to stand up to "them." Period. The left could give a sh!t about citizens being murdered.

Ohio Ordnance HCAR 30-06 Heavy Combat Assault Rifle

[camle]

it’s not about banning guns to make us safer, it’s about banning guns to create a legal precedent for banning ALL guns

[rarestia]

Dude... tag that stuff as NSFW! I can’t be all aroused while sitting at my desk. Sheesh!

[arthurus]

“Assault weapons” ban is driven by fear of the people using them against the government and the Left. They are weapons that look military and thus, in liberal theory and fantasy, inculcate the desire to overthrow the and kill Liberals.

[MrB]

Yep, that’s it, totally - the “assault rifle” is the target because it’s the biggest threat.

[NorthMountain]

I saw those at a gun show two weekends ago. Nice. Really good fit-n-finish.

Price tag out of my range ...

[VOR78]

Go check the price tag on their website. Should take care of that problem.

[Paine in the Neck]

Assualt weapons are easily identified by "the thing that goes up" and their use of "high magazine clips".

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2012/12/18/high-magazine-clips-and-the-shoulder-thing-that-goes-up/

[vladimir998]

Oooooooh! Me like!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“it’s not about banning guns to make us safer, it’s about banning guns to create a legal precedent for banning ALL guns.”

It’s not even about that. The second amendment is the single reason our world hasn’t disintegrated into a holocaust of global proportions.

The thing the liberals fail to understand is the minute American white christian males are rounded up and slaughtered, they also become an endangered species and there will be no where for them to hide. They want to play alligator and be the last to be eaten. Sad fact is, by then it will be totally out of control and no weapon system or ideological belief will be enough to save them.

[Iron Munro]

[Puppage]

Dear leftwing loons...assault is an action, not a device.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

They want to eliminate "assault weapons" (military pattern semi-automatic rifles), because that's what "we" would use to stand up to "them." Period. The left could give a sh!t about citizens being murdered.

BINGO! Post of the day!

If the left gave a sh!t about citizens being murdered they would be all over the weekly murders in Chicago, DC, Philly etc. The left and this POS usurper of a POTUS prove that Black Lives Don't Matter by their ignoring the high crime rate in the large inner cities.

[Red in Blue PA]

A 30-06 AR.....very nice.

[Renegade]

My mini 14 looks innocent but does the same job as that scary AR 15.

[doorgunner69]

Actually, it is not an AR at all, but a "modernized" Browning BAR.

Completely different action from an AR type rifle.

[JimRed]

Assault weapons are the kind you use to fight back against an oppressive regime. That is why the left hates and fears them. It has nothing to do with gun crime.