Are Unintended Consequences crime facts still current?

[BigFatKen]

The 1995 era facts claimed were about 6,000 people were in prison for BS charges like a car fender washer, sitting inside the car toolbox, was a part of a person's suppressor repair kit and not declared. Pardon me if I did not quote it correctly.

How many people are now in prison for too short of a shotgun or in possession of great-grand Pa's Handy Gun or similiar?

 

[boom boom]

The 1995 era facts claimed were about 6,000 people were in prison for BS charges like a car fender washer, sitting inside the car toolbox, was a part of a person's suppressor repair kit and not declared. Pardon me if I did not quote it correctly.

How many people are now in prison for too short of a shotgun or in possession of great-grand Pa's Handy Gun or similiar?

You can play around with this dataset https://isb.ussc.gov/index.html which is the U.S. Sentencing Commission's interactive database.
For 2017, 7590 people were sentenced for firearms violations with the average length of sentence 75 months in length and the median sentence (50 percent above this or below this) is 52 months. Mandatory minimums stiffen the sentences. But, due to a great number of plea bargains, the gun charges may not represent the original charges filed by the DA--as mentioned elsewhere, illegal firearm possession does not require proving intent so it is often what the defendant involved in drug trafficking, etc. might plead down to. Makes for a messy dataset. At one time, there was datasets where you could find such information on a different website which tracked cases from initial charges to final disposition.

The raw datasets which are huge used to have (and might still do) the specific section of U.S. Code used to charge each defendant which might get you closer to what you are looking for.

 

[BigFatKen]

Thank you.

For 2017, 7590 people were sentenced for firearms violations. Just what I was looking for.

 

[Steve762us]

Heck, every one of 'em is innocent--just ask 'em!

 

[jmorris]

Thank you.

For 2017, 7590 people were sentenced for firearms violations. Just what I was looking for.

I’m going to step out on a limb and say you could knock more than 7580 off that list that were convicted and sentenced for having a fender washer or Pa’s Handy Gun.

Close to 3000 people were shot in Chicago by Oct 2017 (not all of 2017).

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...er-the-weekend-in-chicago-20171009-story.html

Most of the shooters there could have been good subjects for the above statistic, if law enforcement was a priority there.

 

[Texas10mm]

Thank you.

For 2017, 7590 people were sentenced for firearms violations. Just what I was looking for.

Keep in mind, that's ONLY the Federal court system.

 

[BigFatKen]

I was mostly fishing for NFA 1934 minor Federal charges. Here is a handy chart. Clubs used more than rifles. Sorry, it did not paste well. The line with rifles is years 2013 to 2017. Must click on link to see it in full table mode.

Expanded Homicide Data Table 8
Murder Victims
by Weapon, 2013–2017

• Download Excel

Weapons 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Total 12,253 12,270 13,750 15,296 15,129
Total firearms: 8,454 8,312 9,778 11,138 10,982
Handguns 5,782 5,673 6,569 7,204 7,032
Rifles 285 258 258 378 403
Shotguns 308 264 272 261 264
Other guns 123 93 177 187 187
Firearms, type not stated 1,956 2,024 2,502 3,108 3,096
Knives or cutting instruments 1,490 1,595 1,589 1,632 1,591
Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) 428 446 450 479 467
Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)1 687 682 659 669 696
Poison 11 10 8 13 13
Explosives 2 7 1 1 0
Fire 94 71 84 114 103
Narcotics 53 70 75 122 97
Drowning 4 14 14 9 8
Strangulation 85 89 99 99 88
Asphyxiation 95 102 120 93 105
Other weapons or weapons not stated 850 872 873 927 979

• 1 Pushed is included in personal weapons.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls