Gang Members and Firearms...Take a Look

They don’t. It takes five or six figures to buy an assault rifle, you must submit to fingerprinting, a sign-off from the chief local law enforcement officer, an application and tax payment to the ATF, a fairly extensive background check, and six months to a year of bureaucracy to obtain an assault rifle. And those made since 1986 can’t be bought anyway, even after all that.

This may be part of the reason that no assault rifle has ever been used to murder anybody in the US, in the entire history of assault rifles. They’ve murdered people in France, in Belgium, in a lot of places, but never in the US.

Maybe you were misinformed because you’ve watched too much television. Assault rifles are used more often in one night of television than in the entire history of the country.

Gang members don’t even generally buy their handguns (the weapons used in crime) at a store or at a gun show. They almost all get them through illegal means, even where there are “loose gun laws” according to the gun-banners, because the laws are more than strict enough to dissuade them.