Firearms Use By Offenders


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Bartholomew Roberts
June 5, 2003, 04:09 PM
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fuo.pdf

Good DOJ report discussing firearms use by criminals... guess what the smallest category of use was?

Military-style semi-automatic firearms... less than 2.5% of subjects had ever used on in a crime and less than 6% ever owned one.

On the other hand, non semi-auto weapons represented the largest category used by criminals with 14% ever using one in the commission of a crime and over 30% owning one (even though the report mentions that 83% of respondents were already disqualified from legal firearms ownership).

Good stats for the fight.

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NukemJim
June 6, 2003, 06:54 AM
Good post, excellent info.

Thank you

NukemJim

OEF_VET
June 6, 2003, 07:06 AM
Those facts must be wrong, felons aren't legally allowed to possess firearms, so they obviously couldn't have used them in committing a crime. Right?

Standing Wolf
June 6, 2003, 03:03 PM
I'm sure this report will be front page news in all the leftist extremist so-called "news" papers bright and early in the morning.

sanchezero
June 7, 2003, 05:13 AM
Don't go muddyin up the waters with all that there conjecture...

Stick to the facts: 4 out of 5 dentists recommend banning of all weapons to their patients who chew gum.

JDSlack
June 7, 2003, 03:17 PM
I also found it interesting that a whopping .07% purchased their weapons using the dreaded "gunshow loophole"

P95Carry
June 7, 2003, 03:36 PM
Why don't the damned anti's read up on this stuff .... instead of trading on misplaced and inaccurate paranoia all the time.

Wouldn't suit their purpose ... sorry, forgot.

:banghead:

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