Firearms Use By Offenders

[Bartholomew Roberts]

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.

 

[NukemJim]

Good post, excellent info.

Thank you

NukemJim

 

[OEF_VET]

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]

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]

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]

I also found it interesting that a whopping .07% purchased their weapons using the dreaded "gunshow loophole"

 

[P95Carry]

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: