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Showing Original Post only (View all)Did the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Work? [View all]
Both sides in the gun debate are misusing academic reports on the impact of the 1994 assault weapons ban, cherry-picking portions out of context to suit their arguments.
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, told a Senate committee that the ban had no impact on lowering crime. But the studies cited by LaPierre concluded that effects of the ban were still unfolding when it expired in 2004 and that it was premature to make definitive assessments of the bans impact on gun violence.
Conversely, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has introduced a bill to institute a new ban on assault weapons, claimed the 1994 ban was effective at reducing crime. Thats not correct either. The study concluded that we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nations recent drop in gun violence.
Both sides in the gun debate are selectively citing from a series of studies that concluded with a 2004 study led by Christopher S. Koper, An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003. That report was the final of three studies of the ban, which was enacted in 1994 as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
The final report concluded the bans success in reducing crimes committed with banned guns was mixed. Gun crimes involving assault weapons declined. However, that decline was offset throughout at least the late 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns equipped with large-capacity magazines.
http://factcheck.org/2013/02/did-the-1994-assault-weapons-ban-work/
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, told a Senate committee that the ban had no impact on lowering crime. But the studies cited by LaPierre concluded that effects of the ban were still unfolding when it expired in 2004 and that it was premature to make definitive assessments of the bans impact on gun violence.
Conversely, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has introduced a bill to institute a new ban on assault weapons, claimed the 1994 ban was effective at reducing crime. Thats not correct either. The study concluded that we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nations recent drop in gun violence.
Both sides in the gun debate are selectively citing from a series of studies that concluded with a 2004 study led by Christopher S. Koper, An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003. That report was the final of three studies of the ban, which was enacted in 1994 as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
The final report concluded the bans success in reducing crimes committed with banned guns was mixed. Gun crimes involving assault weapons declined. However, that decline was offset throughout at least the late 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns equipped with large-capacity magazines.
http://factcheck.org/2013/02/did-the-1994-assault-weapons-ban-work/
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The findings of the DC gun ban found that there was a causal correlation (and Newtown)
Dog Gone at Penigma
Feb 2013
#19
It allows the same ARs during the last ban only with the addition of a compliant grip/stock
aikoaiko
Feb 2013
#23
I think reinstating the ban permanently along with a ban on high-capacity magazines
SecularMotion
Feb 2013
#8
and yet so many of those who have bought them are now dying by them
Dog Gone at Penigma
Feb 2013
#17
It spurred interest in and triggered in a vast proliferation of many weapons it was supposed to ban
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#20