Via Ride Fast:
Calgunlaws.com is reporting on a FBI study that shows criminals ignore gun laws! (imagine that!)
The FBI recently completed a major study of shootings of police officers. Titled ‘Violent Encounters: Felonious Assaults on America’s Law Enforcement Officers.’ Since its publication, the existence of the damning report on the five-year study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about how cop-killing criminals ignore gun laws, and where they get their guns, has not been publicized. Calgunlaws.com has one of the first copies of the report obtained publicly.
Interesting that it’s existence was covered up.
The existence of the report was first discovered by self defense civil rights activists in January 2007 when it was mentioned in a law enforcement newsletter. According to the December 28, 2006 issue of Force Science News, the FBI research focused on 40 incidents involving assaults or deadly attacks on police officers, in which all but one of the guns involved had been obtained illegally, and none were obtained from gun shows.
The Force Science News is published by the Force Science Research Center, a non-profit institution based at Minnesota State University in Mankato. The newsletter quotes Ed Davis, an FBI Criminal Investigative Instructor, who told the International Association of Chiefs of Police that none of these criminals who attacked police officers was ‘hindered by any law – federal, sate or local – that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just laughed at gun laws.’ The newsletter also stated, ‘In contrast to media myth, none of the firearms in the study was obtained from gun shows.”
ZOMG! Not only do criminals not obey laws, they don’t buy their guns at gun shows! So the cops and the FBI know that gun laws are useless, we should expect to see them all repealed shortly right? Right? Huh.
The report is a ‘smoking gun’ in terms of revelations about the sources of crime guns and the failure of gun control. Apparently anti-gun owner politicians and police chiefs do not want the public to know the truth as they campaign against the so-called ‘gun show loophole’. Now it’s time for the IACP leadership, police officials, and political leaders to acknowledge that gun laws don’t stop criminals, that they only restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens, and that gun shows are not the ‘arms bazaars for criminals’ as they have been portrayed.
Facts are such inconvenient things.
Excellent post! I’d love to get a copy of that report…
#1-How much did this report cost? Probably too much, in light of the blood spilled gathering the evidence within.
#2-For whatever it cost, it should be given widest dissemination possible. Where can I get a copy, either paper or pdf?
#3-Whenever any Gun Control freak or politician starts yammering, interrupt him/her/himher/it, and ask them if they have read this report.
#3a-If the answer (most likely) is “No”, then tell said entity to shut up until they HAVE read this report.
#3b-If they have read this report, next ask, “Why are you continuing, in light of the proofs in this report?”
Followup.
I followed the links & found the report in pdf, downloaded & copied it. It is rather large, about 16-17 Mb, broken up into several chapter sections, total 176 pages. I will be sending it out as often as possible.
At the bottom of the calgunlaws link, there is an address to get a copy of the FBI report. Printed? Disk?
Either way, the rest (3, 3a, 3b) all still apply, with an added STFU.
I don’t agree with the FBI on many items, but in light of this report bucking the PC trend, I must give deepest kudos and respect. Thank you.