Assault weapons bans won’t reduce crime, but will help lead to handgun bans

From Charles Krauthammer, writing in The Post in 1996: The claim of the advocates that banning these 19 types of “assault weapons” will reduce the crime rate is laughable…. Dozens of other weapons, the functional equivalent of these “assault weapons,” were left off the list and are perfect substitutes for anyone bent on mayhem…. [T]he […]