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Hawke · 12-03-2004, 05:28 PM

Accorindg to [url=http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcassaul.html:4da6b]this[/url:4da6b], non-military style semi-automatic firearms are just as powerful military-style semi-automatic firearms.

Heres another thing:
[quote:4da6b]In fact most assault weapons are less powerful than hunting rifles.[/quote:4da6b]

Another:
[quote:4da6b]Assault weapons are not the weapons of choice among drug dealers, gang members or criminals in general. Assault weapons are used in about one-fifth of one percent (.20%) of all violent crimes and about one percent in gun crimes. It is estimated that from one to seven percent of all homicides are committed with assault weapons (rifles of any type are involved in three to four percent of all homicides). However a higher percentage are used in police homicides, roughly ten percent. (There has been no consistent trend in this rate from 1978 through 1996.) Between 1992 and 1996 less than 4% of mass murders, committed with guns, involved assault weapons. (Our deadliest mass murders have either involved arson or bombs.)[/quote:4da6b]

[quote:4da6b]There are close to 4 million assault weapons in the U.S., which amounts to roughly 1.7% of the total gun stock.[/quote:4da6b]

[quote:4da6b]However, current "assault weapon" legislation defines certain semi-automatic weapons as "assault weapons.[/quote:4da6b]
Certain, not all.

[quote:4da6b]An example of assault weapon legislation is the Federal 1994 Crime Bill. The bill in part outlaws new civilian manufacture of certain semi-automatic assault weapons. It also prohibits new civilian manufacture of "large capacity ammunition feeding devices" declared certain weapons as assault weapons, and states a semi-automatic rifle is an assault weapon if it can accept a detachable magazine and has two or more of the following:

A folding or telescoping stock
A pistol grip
A bayonet mount
A flash suppressor, or threads to attach one
A grenade launcher.
(For the Crime Bill's definition of assault shotguns and pistols, a list of assault weapons, and further legal issues see Crime Bill FAQ.) [/quote:4da6b]

Plus there is much more.

You can hunt with some, but few, assault rifles. [AR-15 = .223 which you can hunt prarie dog] Which gives citizens a purpose to own them.

Also, if there is no need for a civilian to own a assault rifle, then there is no need for a civilian to own a glock, beretta ect. You can do just as much if not more with an assault rifle than a pistol.

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Hawke is Offline Senior Member Posts: 3,546 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Ohio	12-03-2004, 05:28 PM Accorindg to [url=http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcassaul.html:4da6b]this[/url:4da6b], non-military style semi-automatic firearms are just as powerful military-style semi-automatic firearms. Heres another thing: [quote:4da6b]In fact most assault weapons are less powerful than hunting rifles.[/quote:4da6b] Another: [quote:4da6b]Assault weapons are not the weapons of choice among drug dealers, gang members or criminals in general. Assault weapons are used in about one-fifth of one percent (.20%) of all violent crimes and about one percent in gun crimes. It is estimated that from one to seven percent of all homicides are committed with assault weapons (rifles of any type are involved in three to four percent of all homicides). However a higher percentage are used in police homicides, roughly ten percent. (There has been no consistent trend in this rate from 1978 through 1996.) Between 1992 and 1996 less than 4% of mass murders, committed with guns, involved assault weapons. (Our deadliest mass murders have either involved arson or bombs.)[/quote:4da6b] [quote:4da6b]There are close to 4 million assault weapons in the U.S., which amounts to roughly 1.7% of the total gun stock.[/quote:4da6b] [quote:4da6b]However, current "assault weapon" legislation defines certain semi-automatic weapons as "assault weapons.[/quote:4da6b] Certain, not all. [quote:4da6b]An example of assault weapon legislation is the Federal 1994 Crime Bill. The bill in part outlaws new civilian manufacture of certain semi-automatic assault weapons. It also prohibits new civilian manufacture of "large capacity ammunition feeding devices" declared certain weapons as assault weapons, and states a semi-automatic rifle is an assault weapon if it can accept a detachable magazine and has two or more of the following: A folding or telescoping stock A pistol grip A bayonet mount A flash suppressor, or threads to attach one A grenade launcher. (For the Crime Bill's definition of assault shotguns and pistols, a list of assault weapons, and further legal issues see Crime Bill FAQ.) [/quote:4da6b] Plus there is much more. You can hunt with some, but few, assault rifles. [AR-15 = .223 which you can hunt prarie dog] Which gives citizens a purpose to own them. Also, if there is no need for a civilian to own a assault rifle, then there is no need for a civilian to own a glock, beretta ect. You can do just as much if not more with an assault rifle than a pistol.