Assault Weapons

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9. I encourage everyone to carefully read the footnotes and linked citations.

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Even among the ample gun control propaganda, I've rarely seen such baseless, unscholarly garbage. For instance, despite citing the firearm used in Sandy Hook among the statistics, no mention is made of how the gun was actually compliant with Connecticut's assault weapon ban or that in many of these shootings more than weapon was used, and would have been more than sufficient. Terms like high-capacity magazines are often used interchangeably with "assault weapons," anf the terms are rarely clearly defined, nor is there any discussion of how items like barrel shrouds or folding stocks actually make a gun more lethal.

More importantly, actual research by the Department of Justice is either omitted, misconceived, or willfully misconstrued.

In fact, the DOJ has already essentially concluded that the federal assault weapons ban did little to nothing, and assault weapon bans are generally useless.

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/PDF-News/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf

http://www.propublica.org/article/fact-checking-feinstein-on-the-assault-weapons-ban

Lastly, there's no mention of the potential constitutional problems with such bans after Heller and McDonald, and how the Supreme Court will likely have the last word concerning any assault weapon ban legislation, including a current petition for certiorari before the court on this very issue.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/1021/Supreme-Court-battle-on-assault-weapons-looms.-But-do-bans-do-anything

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/friedman-v-city-of-highland-park/