Re: "assault weapons" and their use in crime

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From: Tim McCanlies
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 01:20

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Tim McCanlies (timmc@netcom.com) wrote:
: Nathaniel McIntosh (mcintosh@rice.edu) wrote:
: : Do you have any statistics to provide which show the percentages of
: : "assault weapons" used in gun crimes?

: One stat I've run across, several places, is: the Asst. Chief of the New 
: Jersey State Police, testifying before Congress recently.  He stated 
: that, since they've been keeping records of gun crimes broken down into 
: category, that assault weapons accounted for 0.026% of all gun crimes.

Correction: not enough zeros.  It was less than 1%, so it was 0.0026%.
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