Reply #202: First, I wouldn't blindly accept anything as truthful that's posted on a [View All]

[Mike L]

gun banning website. Second, if the statistics did 'drop', it's probably because the guns were no longer classified as "assault weapons" due to minor alterations of the guns, which were still being sold. However, the pre-1994 statistics that I have seen showed that assault weapons were used in only 1% of all crimes.

" Joseph Constance, deputy chief of the Trenton, New Jersey, Police Department, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August 1993:

"Since police started keeping statistics, we now know that assault weapons are/were used in an underwhelming .026 of 1 percent of crimes in New Jersey. This means that my officers are more likely to confront an escaped tiger from the local zoo than to confront an assault rifle in the hands of a drug-crazed killer on the streets." "

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