Page 10 indicates that none of the officers were killed with "assault weapons" (the term "rifle" seems ambiguous though), which contradicts VPC's "Officer Down" document and what Diane Feinstein has recently been saying.
Which raises a question I've not had time to research: What is the price delta of firearms purchased "on the street" and at gun shows or in gun stores? This report indicates that the offenders bought their weapons on the street and used "availability" and "familiarity" as top motivators, but I wonder what part price plays in that decision. Since most street criminals make a pathetic wage, I suspect that street guns are relatively cheap and thus a better deal. Page 28 - utterly unsurprising that 100% of the offenders had priors. Guy Smith Author, Gun Facts [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.GunFacts.info> www.GunFacts.info _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph E. Olson Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:06 AM To: List Firearms Reg Subject: New FBI study http://www.forcesciencenews.com/home...html?serial=62 "New findings on how offenders train with, carry and deploy the weapons they use to attack police officers have emerged in a just-published, 5-year study by the FBI. Among other things, the data reveal that most would-be cop killers: --show signs of being armed that officers miss; --have more experience using deadly force in "street combat" than their intended victims; --practice with firearms more often and shoot more accurately; --have no hesitation whatsoever about pulling the trigger. "If you hesitate," one told the study's researchers, "you're dead. You have the instinct or you don't. If you don't, you're in trouble on the street...." These and other weapons-related findings comprise one chapter in a 180-page research summary called "Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers." The study is the third in a series of long investigations into fatal and nonfatal attacks on POs by the FBI team of Dr. Anthony Pinizzotto, clinical forensic psychologist, and Ed Davis, criminal investigative instructor, both with the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, and Charles Miller III, coordinator of the LEOs Killed and Assaulted program." One of the unsurprising tidbits... "Predominately handguns were used in the assaults on officers and all but one were obtained illegally, usually in street transactions or in thefts. In contrast to media myth, none of the firearms in the study was obtained from gun shows. What was available "was the overriding factor in weapon choice," the report says. Only 1 offender hand-picked a particular gun "because he felt it would do the most damage to a human being." Researcher Davis, in a presentation and discussion for the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police, noted that none of the attackers interviewed was "hindered by any law--federal, state or local--that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just laughed at gun laws."" Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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