This was in today's Wall Street Journal. It has a lot of facts and statistics showing how the AWB did not reduce crime, good explanations of differences between military and civilian weapons, and the pointlessness of magazine restrictions. It will give you some good information to use in your discussions, and was written by John Lott, Jr, who had a front row seat for all this crap.
Possibly the most important part of the article, IMHO, is that the researchers commissioned to study it could find absolutely no correlation between the AWB and the reductions in gun violence, and that gun violence has gone down steadily since the AWB ended.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...8245803845796068.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
( this shouldn't be behind the site login; if it is, you should be able to get to it through wsj.com and go to the opinion section.)
Possibly the most important part of the article, IMHO, is that the researchers commissioned to study it could find absolutely no correlation between the AWB and the reductions in gun violence, and that gun violence has gone down steadily since the AWB ended.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...8245803845796068.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
( this shouldn't be behind the site login; if it is, you should be able to get to it through wsj.com and go to the opinion section.)
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