It is funny when they admit it, a paltry decade later. Wonder what else is nonsensical they wish to impose?
A 2004 Justice Department-funded evaluation found no clear evidence that the decade-long ban saved any lives. The guns categorized as “assault weapons” had only been used in about 2 percent of gun crimes before the ban. “Should it be renewed,” the report concluded, “the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”
via Why Gun Control Groups Have Moved Away From an Assault Weapons Ban | Mother Jones.