More Than Half of Mass Shooters Used Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines

[Bill USA]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines-mass-shootings-feinstein

The political fortunes of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 have looked dim from the start. But as Congress considers the new legislation put forth by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one thing is clear: If it were to pass, the bill would outlaw highly lethal firearms that dozens of mass shooters in the United States have used to unleash carnage.

More than half of the killers we studied in our investigation of 62 mass shootings over the last three decades possessed weapons that would be banned by Feinstein's bill, including various semi-automatic rifles, guns with military features, and handguns using magazines with more than 10 rounds. The damage these weapons can cause has been on grim display since last summer, from Aurora to Milwaukee to Minneapolis to Newtown, where attacks carried out with them left a total of 118 people injured and dead.

"They got the most shots," said a Chicago teenager who prefers high-capacity magazines. "You can shoot forever."

Ultimately, "assault weapon" and "high-capacity magazine" are political terms—there is no official or widely accepted definition for either, and different legislation has treated them differently. Feinstein's new bill seeks to improve upon the 1994 ban she authored, which expired in 2004; gun manufacturers easily sidestepped that law by making superficial modifications to their weapons.
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here's Mother Jones updated database showing mass shooting's up to and including 2016
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data


[font size=+1"] What if the mass killer was a strict constructionist with regard to the constitution..
A mass shooting might go something like this:[/font]





Assault rifles are becoming mass shooters’ weapon of choice

One common denominator behind these and other high-casualty mass shootings in recent years is the use of assault style rifles, capable of firing many rounds of ammunition in a relatively short period of time, with high accuracy. And their use in these types of shooting is becoming more common: There have been eight high-profile public mass shootings since July of last year, according to a database compiled by Mother Jones magazine. Assault-style rifles were used in seven of those.

[font size=+1"] Guys who want to play around with machine guns should join the Army or Marine Corps and maybe they will get a chance to shoot and some people who are similarly equipped (What? No fun in that?). [/font]

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. How about putting a huge tax on the purchase

Of that shit and subjecting the buyer to a full security clearance type check?
This wouldn't abridge their rights in the least. People have to deal with this kind of shit all the time.

[pipoman]

2. There are actually publications that can help with lack of knowledge of

Already determined and enshrined interpretation of the Constitution...the house judiciary committees are charged with vetting all legislation based on these already determined interpretations so that the judiciary of the US don't strike down before the ink dries, waste of time legislation....like taking someones rights without due process for instance.

[Bill USA]

3. why don't guys who want to play with machine guns go into the military? cuzz the other guys will be

equipped to shoot back wit similary armaments.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. In place like Switzerland they get their fill

Of guns by mandatory military service that goes on for years.
The guys I know never want too see a gun again after that.