Originally Posted By: 1sttruck
"blah blah blah
And MILLIONS of times per YEAR a weapon is used to defend the owner from harm. Most of the time WITH OUT even firing a SINGLE shot."
??? The thread is about 'gun (ammo) control', the discussion has been about 'gun (ammo) control', and in the middle of the discussion you follow up an intelligent reply with a statement about one of the utility of firearms. Gee, some people use guns for hunting, some people use them target shooting.....
Amazing.
Here is your post above if you are really serious about this thread being about ammo...
PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU STATED ANY THING ABOUT AMMO IN THE FOLLOW POST;
Originally Posted By: 1sttruck
"There have been NO legally owned NFA weapons used in a crime since the 1930's."
Not true, but only two incidents are commonly cited, and even crimes involving illegally owned machine guns are relatively rare. Gee, tracking of individual weapons, finger print and background checks plus signed letters from law enforcement seems like a fairly effective program. The NFA was evidently enacted in reaction to an assassination attempt on FDR where the mayor of Chicago was killed, and the backdrop of violence among gangsters. It seems Caopone the started the arms race among gangsters after buying a few machine guns at a hardwrae store; don't sell firearms to people who will misuse them and laws won't get passed. Instead we can fast forward over half a century to gun shows in Portland where again obvious gang bangers are buying firearms, producing the obvious reaction of more gun laws.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcfullau.html
Since 1934, there appear to have been at least two homicides committed with legally owned automatic weapons. One was a murder committed by a law enforcement officer (as opposed to a civilian). On September 15th, 1988, a 13-year veteran of the Dayton, Ohio police department, Patrolman Roger Waller, then 32, used his fully automatic MAC-11 .380 caliber submachine gun to kill a police informant, 52-year-old Lawrence Hileman. Patrolman Waller pleaded guilty in 1990, and he and an accomplice were sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 1986 'ban' on sales of new machine guns does not apply to purchases by law enforcement or government agencies.
The other homicide, possibly involving a legally owned machine gun, occurred on September 14, 1992, also in Ohio (source).
Crime Involving Illegally Owned Machine Guns
Again in Targeting Guns, Kleck writes, four police officers were killed in the line of duty by machine guns from 1983 to 1992. (713 law enforcement officers were killed during that period, 651 with guns.)
In 1980, when Miami's homicide rate was at an all-time high, less than 1% of all homicides involved machine guns. (Miami was supposedly a "machine gun Mecca" and drug trafficking capital of the U.S.) Although there are no national figures to compare to, machine gun deaths were probably lower elsewhere. Kleck cites several examples:
Of 2,200 guns recovered by Minneapolis police (1987-1989), not one was fully automatic.
A total of 420 weapons, including 375 guns, were seized during drug warrant executions and arrests by the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad (Will and Grundie counties in the Chicago metropolitan area, 1980-1989). None of the guns was a machine gun.
16 of 2,359 (0.7%) of the guns seized in the Detroit area (1991-1992) in connection with "the investigation of narcotics trafficking operations" were machine guns.
Yea, loaded with tons of "intelligent" discussion about ammo.
You prove my point. Thank you.