{"id":104361,"date":"2024-09-17T01:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=104361"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:39:32","slug":"104361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=104361","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Controllers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now.<\/a><\/p>\n

Marking the recent\u00a0anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the Clinton \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, I circled back to McWhirter and Elinson\u2019s\u00a0American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15<\/em><\/a>. The chapter on the halfhearted efforts to renew the expiring 1994 \u201casault weapon\u201d ban is fascinating.<\/p>\n

While the ban probably was never going to be renewed in the 2004 political environment, the book explains that a major reason renewal was DOA was that gun control groups didn\u2019t think the ban had worked\u2026and\u00a0rightly so<\/a>. More AR-15s and similar rifles were made during the ban than before it. They were just made in ban-compliant formats.<\/p>\n

Police groups which had allied with gun control groups to pass the ban in 1994 didn\u2019t lend their support to a renewal in 2004 because they saw for themselves that the ban didn\u2019t work. Major gun control activists ultimately decided it wasn\u2019t worth using their limited resources and political capital to fight for a renewal.<\/p>\n

This is all hilarious in hindsight. Today, gun control activists falsely assert the ban\u00a0totally worked<\/a>\u00a0and so we should\u00a0enact another one<\/a>. But they knew that wasn\u2019t true in 2004 and they know it now.<\/p>\n

While mass shootings have become all too common, the surge in mass shootings involving rifles really kicked off after 2010, not after 2004. The gun control industry\u2019s arguments also ignore the relative rarity of such shootings before 1994.<\/p>\n

Regardless, even if there were a decrease in mass shootings after 1994, it couldn\u2019t have been due to the Clinton ban, because more semi-auto rifles were sold\u00a0during<\/em>\u00a0the ban than before. And in a classic case of unintended consequences, the 1994 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban is probably what made the AR15 the\u00a0most popular rifle<\/a>\u00a0in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun Controllers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now. Marking the recent\u00a0anniversary\u00a0of the Clinton \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, I circled back to McWhirter and Elinson\u2019s\u00a0American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. The chapter on the halfhearted efforts to renew the expiring 1994 \u201casault weapon\u201d ban is fascinating. While the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104362,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104361\/revisions\/104362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}