Why is it that the main objection concerning gun control

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111. There are no raw numbers of assault weapon crime, just rifle crime.

And there is no exact count of assault weapons in circulation.

All we do actually know is that military style rifles must account for somewhere less than 3.7% because the FBI tracks fewer than 3.7% of gun homicides as rifle homicides (military style assault rifles fall under that category).

Congressional studies can give an accurate figure for total weapons at around 310 million. Unfortunately, all we have to go on for assault weapon ownership is statistical sampling and extrapolation of a very limited dataset. Slate.com outlined available data on the topic and came up with about 4.55 million AR15 and Mini-14 rifles... although this ignores the dozens of other kinds of assault rifles out there too (AKs, subcaliber, FAL, etc). Nevertheless, you could safely say there's probably AT LEAST 5 million semiauto military style rifles out there. Do you agree with that as a reasonable estimate, or do you think the number is higher/lower? Honestly, I think it's alot higher than 5mil due to that figure ignoring many other of the types of assault weapons. Moving on...

So the worst case scenario for Assault Weapons (conversely, the best argument for their restriction) would be where the least amount of them cause the most death. That is the case where they will be most likely to produce a disproportionate amount of homicide relative to their presence. In this case, that would be the scenario where they account for ALL of the rifle-attributed 3.7% of FBI gun-homicide (obviously not the case, but let's just pretend ALL rifle death is cause by assault style rifles). So if we ignore the fact that a 5mil assault-style weapons figure may only account for two particular rifles - that's a minimum ownership composition of about 1.6% (out of a total of 310 million guns).
So the WORST case scenario painting assault style rifles as unnecessarily dangerous are that 1.6% of the total guns out there (assault weapons) could be responsible for 3.7% of the total gun deaths.