20% 20% 20% 20% 20% Pardon the interruption! “Our study seems to indicate that both the Federal assault rifle ban and individual State assault rifle bans do not affect the likelihood that an assault rifle was used in a mass shooting,” Blau said. The al-Qaeda spokesman—and by extension Reid—are mixing up semiautomatic weapons and automatic weapons. There is significant contrary data that shows the 10-year assault weapons ban had little, if any, effect. Instead, “semiautomatic handguns [47.9 percent] are far more prevalent in random massacres than firearms that would typically be classified as assault weapons.”Did the assault weapons ban make a difference in mass shootings?

Source: Washington Post June 17, 2016 07:04 UTC