A new emergency application asks SCOTUS to halt bans on assault weapons that Illinois... enacted

[KS Toronado]

8. From the link....page 10

The fact that AR-platform rifles are used extremely rarely in crime un-
derscores that the banned firearms are commonly possessed by law-abiding
citizens for lawful purposes. Well under 1% of gun crimes are committed with

“assault rifles.” Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and their Control 112
(1997). This conclusion is borne out by FBI statistics. In the five years from
2015 to 2019, there were an average of 14,556 murders per year in the United

States. U.S. Dept. of Just., Expanded Homicide Data Table 8: Murder Victims
by Weapon, 2015-2019, Crime in the United States, 2019, FBI (available at
https://bit.ly/31WmQ1V). On average, rifles of all types (of which assault weap-

ons are a subset) were identified as the murder weapon in 315 (or 2.5%) of the
murders per year. Id. By way of comparison, on average 669 people per year
are murdered by “personal weapons” such as hands, fists, and feet. Id. Thus,

according to FBI statistics, a murder victim is more than twice as likely to have
been killed by hands and feet than by an assault weapon. Even in the counter-
factual event that an assault weapon had been involved in each rifle-related

murder from 2015 to 2019, an infinitesimal percentage of the approximately
24 million “assault rifles” in circulation in the United States during that time
period (0.006%) would have been used for that unlawful purpose.

They're using data from 1997 and 2015-2019 in their attempt to prove that “personal weapons” such as
hands, fists, and feet." are more dangerous than assault weapons. If I was a Judge, I'd be