Brain357
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You're the one that brought up machine guns as if there was some relevance and now you admit that there isn't. Make up your mind!
"Background checks have stopped over a million sales to criminals."
And your proof is?
"Once we register guns and make it so all sales need a background check there will be even more stopped"
Mere speculation.
You are aware that firearms only account for 8 percent of violent crime. Aren't you?
Weapons Used in Violent Crimes
Weapon Used -- Rape -- Robbery -- Assault --Total
Gun -- 9.5% -- 20.0% -- 11.0% -- 12.7%
Knife -- 10.7% -- 16.7% -- 8.5% -- 10.1%
Other -- 4.1% -- 10.0% -- 12.9% -- 12.1%
Unknown Weapon -- 1.1% -- 2.4% -- 1.7% -- 1.8%
None -- 63.9% -- 39.7% -- 59.3% -- 55.8%
Don't Know -- 10.7% -- 11.2% -- 6.5% -- 7.5%
No I admitted that your clueless. How does your owning a machine gun show that our laws don't keep them from criminals? That would be true if you are a criminal. Are you? Wait you lie constantly so I guess your responses don't matter.
Hahahahahahahaha wow!!
Way to duck and weave when faced with facts.
Still hung up on "machine guns" that you first brought up and then admitted it wasn't relevant.
Of the 32 firearms (21.8 percent of the total) submitted in homicide cases, there were 24 (75.0 percent) handguns, 3 (9.0 percent) rifles, 4 (13.0 percent) shotguns, and 1 (3.0 percent) machine gun (submachine gun).
Of the 51 firearms (34.7 percent of the total) identified as being used in drug trafficking crimes, there were 47 (92.0 percent) handguns, 2 (4.0 percent) rifles, and 2 (4.0 percent) machine guns (submachine guns).
Firearms Used in Drug
Of the 6 firearms (4.0 percent of the total) identified as being related to street gang crimes, 5 (83.3 percent) were handguns and 1 (16.7 percent)was a machine gun (submachine gun).
Source:
Now this shows that the laws do not in fact keep machine guns away from criminals.
I'll concede that a fully automatic weapon is the least popular choice for criminals, but the point is the law doesn't prevent criminals from having them, the truth is the most common weapon among criminals is a handgun and that makes much more sense since they are a lot easier to conceal.
Look at this. In 2010 they were all of .6%. Sounds like the laws are working great:
https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/pdfs/publications/Firearms_Report_10.pdf