Where is the assault weapon threat?
- In May of 1990, then New Jersey Governor Jim Florio signed into law one of the first comprehensive semi-automatic gun bans.
In response, Deputy Police Chief Joseph Constance of Trenton, New Jersey stated: "Assault weapons are used in an underwhelming .026 of 1 percent of crimes in New Jersey. This means that my officers are more likely to confront an escaped tiger from the local zoo than to confront an assault rifle in the hands of a drug-crazed killer on the streets."
- According to the FBI and various state and local police figures, rifles of any type are used in only 3 percent of all homicides and "assault weapons" under various definitions are used in less that 1 percent of all violent crime.
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