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The VPC’s alleged study – after the ban

Pro-Gun Progressive notes that Violence Policy Center’s made up statistic that 1 in 5 cops killed with weapons that look like assault weapons isn’t even affected by the sunset of the assault weapons ban:

The VPC claimed 1 in 5 police officers were killed by so-called assault weapons, so what has happened to police deaths since the ban lapsed?

In 2005, the FBI records exactly 3 police deaths resulting from criminal use of rifles — that is out of 50 from all all firearms (42 using handguns and 5 using shotguns). I don’t know how many of these 3 rifles were semi-automatic rifles with large replaceable magazines, pistol-grips and bayonet lugs — the FBI doesn’t say.

Fewer were killed with rifles than were killed by deliberate assaults with vehicles.

Looking through the “Summaries of Officers Killed” …, I count that 47 of the 54 killers (87%) had prior criminal records. In several of these instances lacking a prior record, the killer is not known with certainty.

There were problems with their made up numbers any way that had little to do with the ban’s expiration. Such as:

  • Only 13 of the weapons listed in the original study meet the criteria listed in the now expired assault weapons ban.
  • One of the assault weapons listed on the study is actually a jeep.
  • They classify hunting rifles as assault weapons.
  • Assuming the information in the table is accurate, and assuming I counted correctly (that’s a big if; please check my numbers), there were 41 perps. At least 22 of these were disqualified from gun possession because of priors or mental illness.
  • They have to cheat to win.

    2 Responses to “The VPC’s alleged study – after the ban”

    1. triticale Says:

      Back when they were demonizing “assau7lt weopons” in the leadup to the ban, someone did a review of the previous few years of crime statistics from Chicago, which were detailed enough to list weapons used. More people were murdered by being strangled with undergarments than by being shot with military-caliber rifles.

    2. Spank That Donkey Says:

      Great Post Uncle!

    Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.

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