rhe truth comes out, heck I already knew this……but try to tell it
to the anti-gun buzzards.

——— Forwarded message ———-
From: Jeff Chan <[email protected]>
To: firearms-alert <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:21:17 -0800
Subject: [firearms-alert] RESEARCH: BJS: “Firearm Use by Offenders”
refutes gun show, assault weapon lies
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

The U.S. Department of Jutice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics
this month released results of nationally representative 1997
prison inmate surveys in a report titled “Firearm Use by
Offenders”. Some of the key findings repeated on the BJS
main Firearms and Crime page:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov./bjs/guns.htm

+ According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among
those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from -

+ a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2%

+ a retail store or pawnshop for about 12%

+ family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source for 80%

+ During the offense that brought them to prison, 15% of State
inmates and 13% of Federal inmates carried a handgun, and
about 2%, a military-style semiautomatic gun.

Obviously this shoots big holes in the so-called “assault
wweapon” hysteria, and the “gun show loophole” lie, and
it’s from authoritative government sources. Be sure to
mention these in letters, etc.

The main page for the Firearm Use by Offenders page is at:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov./bjs/abstract/fuo.htm

And I have acrhived copies at:

http://rkba.org/research/bjs/fuo/

These results are largely consistent with earlier versions
of the studies for BJS by James Wright, etc.

Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
[email protected]
http://www.jeffchan.com/