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Furthermore, a July 1995 report by the USDoJ Bureau of Justice Statistics titled Guns Used in Crime helped to shed more light upon the actual role of semi-automatics in the commission of violent crime. Although there were 3,393 traces of "assault weapons" for 1993, those firearms represented only 8% of the total number of firearms used in violent crime for the entire year.

The BJS report also presented a list of the ten firearms most heavily traced by the BATF in 1994. Number one on the list was the Lorcin P25, a "Saturday Night Special" pistol from one of the most notorious gun manufacturers in American history. The only non-pistol firearm to make it onto the list was the 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Not a single "assault weapon" made it onto the list.

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