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If you mean depriving law abiding citizens of their right to own firearms yes...very effective. Otherwise, nothing has been done to prevent or stop crime.
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Why have chemical weapons been developed?
They're effective and deadly.
Why are automatic weapons illegal in the US?
Automatic weapons as we usually think of them are really semi-automatic. That is, you fire one bullet for each trigger pull, and the weapon charges itself with a new bullet automatically. These are not assault weapons, though most politicians think they are. Real automatic weapons will 'spray' out a stream of bullets as long as the trigger is kept pulled. These ARE considered assault weapons. They were outlawed largely because of their use by gangsters who had more firepower with them than the police did. Automatic weapons are pretty dangerous because of all the firepower they emit. The killings that you read about where "Assault" weapons have been used, have NOT used assault weapons, only semi-automatic weapons.
Can you get a concealed weapons permit in Washington State if you have an Assault 4 gross misdemeanor Non DV on your record?
(No felons are allowed to carry weapons. So if you have been jailed or been put in prison then no. If you are a felon you cannot own a weapon, period.) Assault 4 is NOT a felony, it is a gross misdemeanor, and it is being deferred, AND it is not a DV charge so it doesn't automatically fall under the category of misdemeanors that with DV that make it so you cant
What weapons do peacekeepers use?
many have been known to use assault rifles such as: m16, ak-47, and the m8. their secondary weapons can be pistols, shotguns and submachine guns.
What countries have assault weapon bans and what are their results?
Assault Weapons generally refer to firearms that have a burst or full auto feature. Most countries have such bans, even weapons they think look like assault weapons, and of course many countries ban personal ownership of any weapons. This is very true for countries in which the government does not enjoy the support of the people. The results have meant many governments maintaining control for much longer than they would otherwise. There have been little to no effect on crime because such weapons are very expensive and crime is a cultural matter more than access to knifes or weapons.
What are the weapons against the common cold?
Zinc has been proven to be an effective weapon if it is taken within 24 hours of the first symptoms appearing. There are no other weapons yet identified.
What is attempted felonious assault and what is the max punishment?
There are two types of felony assault charges. They can either be a Class B felony or a class D felony. Class D felonies are normally misdemeanors in which minimal injury has been done to the victim by the defendant. Class B is more serious when more severe injury has been done. Penalties can range from fines, incarceration or both. This all depends on the severity of the crime, the weapons used to commit the crime, and what state it took place in.
About combat engineering Combat Assault engineers have at times been used to attack tanks with anti tank weapons and demolitions but is this normally part of their normal job?
The word "assault" would seem to imply that they are trained and equipped for assault, destroying enemy obstacles and fortifications so that a beach may be obtained for friendly assault forces. If tanks are a part of those enemy defenses, then yes, destroying them with anti-tank weapons and demolitions would also be a normal part of their job. Of course, if the enemy has no tanks in the area to be assaulted, then it is a normal part of their job which is not needed in that particular case.
What are some examples of Tavor weapons?
The Tavor is an Isreali assault rifle. The full name of the rifle is IMI Tavor TAR-21. It has been the standard issue weapon for the Isreali infantry since 2009.
Assault and battery on a police officer?
Assault and Battery on a Police Officer is a serious criminal offense. There is a common misconception about Assault, and I'll explain this here. Assault is not the unlawful touching of another person, that is Battery. Assault is to provoke fear in someone that you may batter them (hit them). If you've been charged with Assault & Battery on a Police officer, it would be suggest that you seek legal counsel to protect your rights.
How many times have assault rifles been used in crimes?
A genuine assault weapon, as opposed to a legal definition, is a hand-held, selective fire weapon, which means it's capable of firing in either an automatic or a semiautomatic mode depending on the position of a selector switch. These kinds of weapons are heavily regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and are further regulated in some states. (See machine guns.)However, current "assault weapon" legislation defines certain semi-automatic weapons as "assault weapons." A semi-automatic weapon is one that fires a round with each pull of the trigger, versus an automatic weapon which continues to shoot until the trigger is released or the ammunition supply is exhausted. These kinds of "assault weapons" are sometimes referred to as military-style semi-automatic weapons.An example of assault weapon legislation is the Federal 1994 Crime Bill. The bill in part outlaws new civilian manufacture of certain semi-automatic assault weapons. It also prohibits new civilian manufacture of "large capacity ammunition feeding devices" declared certain weapons as assault weapons, and states a semi-automatic rifle is an assault weapon if it can accept a detachable magazine and has two or more of the following:A folding or telescoping stockA pistol gripA bayonet mountA flash suppressor, or threads to attach oneA grenade launcher.(For the Crime Bill's definition of assault shotguns and pistols, a list of assault weapons, and further legal issues see Crime Bill FAQ.)[The 1994 Crime Bill expired on September 13, 2004. See Semiautomatic Assault Weapon (SAW) Ban QUESTIONS & ANSWERS from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.]Assault Weapons: The Weapons of Choice?The following summary of police statistical surveys is excerpted from Kopel, David B, Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition. (Kopel's paper contains the citations for these surveys and lists a few more studies as well.)California. In 1990, "assault weapons" comprised 36 of the 963 firearms involved in homicide or aggravated assault and analyzed by police crime laboratories, according to a report prepared by the California Department of Justice, and based on data from police firearms laboratories throughout the state. The report concluded that "assault weapons play a very small role in assault and homicide firearm cases." Of the 1,979 guns seized from California narcotics dealers in 1990, 58 were "assault weapons."Chicago. From 1985 through 1989, only 1 homicide was perpetrated with a military caliber rifle. Of the 17,144 guns seized by the Chicago police in 1989, 175 were "military style weapons."Florida. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Uniform Crime Reports for 1989 indicate that rifles of all types accounted for 2.6% of the weapons used in Florida homicides. The Florida Assault Weapons Commission found that "assault weapons" were used in 17 of 7,500 gun crimes for the years 1986-1989.Los Angeles. Of the more than 4,000 guns seized by police during one year, only about 3% were "assault weapons."Maryland. In 1989-90, there was only one death involving a "semiautomatic assault rifle" in all twenty-four counties of the State of Maryland.Massachusetts. Of 161 fatal shootings in Massachusetts in 1988, three involved "semiautomatic assault rifles." From 1985 to 1991, the guns were involved in 0.7% of all shootings.Miami. The Miami police seized 18,702 firearms from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1993. Of these, 3.13% were "assault weapons."New Jersey. According to the Deputy Chief Joseph Constance of the Trenton New Jersey Police Department, in 1989, there was not a single murder involving any rifle, much less a "semiautomatic assault rifle," in the State of New Jersey. No person in New Jersey was killed with an "assault weapon" in 1988. Nevertheless, in 1990 the New Jersey legislature enacted an "assault weapon" ban that included low-power .22 rifles, and even BB guns. Based on the legislature's broad definition of "assault weapons," in 1991, such guns were used in five of 410 murders in New Jersey; in forty-seven of 22,728 armed robberies; and in twenty-three of 23,720 aggravated assaults committed in New Jersey.New York City. Of 12,138 crime guns seized by New York City police in 1988, eighty were "assault-type" firearms.New York State. Semiautomatic "assault rifles" were used in twenty of the 2,394 murders in New York State in 1992.San Diego. Of the 3,000 firearms seized by the San Diego police in 1988-90, nine were "assault weapons" under the California definition.San Francisco. Only 2.2% of the firearms confiscated in 1988 were military-style semiautomatics.Virginia. Of the 1,171 weapons analyzed in state forensics laboratories in 1992, 3.3% were "assault weapons."National statistics. Less than four percent of all homicides in the United States involve any type of rifle. No more than .8% of homicides are perpetrated with rifles using military calibers. (And not all rifles using such calibers are usually considered "assault weapons.") Overall, the number of persons killed with rifles of any type in 1990 was lower than the number in any year in the 1980s.Gary Kleck, in Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control(Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York 1997), summarizes the findings of forty-seven such studies, indicating that less than 2% of crime guns were assault weapons (the median was about 1.8%). According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, (Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1993, May 1996) offenders were armed with a firearm in 10% of all violent crimes. That would mean less than .20% (one-fifth of one percent or 1 in 500) of violent crime offenders used an assault weapon (1.8% X 10% = .18%).The Police and Assault WeaponsAccording to Roth and Koper (Roth), (Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994, May 1996), "assault weapons are estimated to be involved in 1 to 7 percent of gun homicides". Their study further reports, "In sum, police officers are rarely murdered with assault weapons. Yet the fraction of police gun murders perpetrated with assault weapons is higher than that for civilian gun murders. Assault weapons accounted for about 10% of police gun murders from 1992 through May of 1996 when considering only those cases for which the gun make could be ascertained."(From 1982 to 1993, of the 687 officers who were killed by firearms other than their own guns, more were killed by .38 caliber revolvers than by any other firearm. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Guns Used in Crime, July 1995, p. 5. [PDF])The police view of assault weapons.Assault Weapons and Mass ShootingsIn "Appendix A" Roth et. al found, "contrary to our expectations, only 2 -- 3.8 percent - of the 52 mass murders we gleaned from the Nexis search [from Jan. 1992 through May 1996] unambiguously involved assault weapons. This is about the same percentage as for other murders... media accounts lend some tenuous support to the notion that assault weapons are more deadly than other weapons in mass murder events, as measured by victims per incident. However in Footnote 61 Roth states: "If, for instance, the substituted long guns were .22 caliber, rimfire (i.e., low velocity) rifles (and in addition did not accept large-capacity magazines), then a substitution effect [as a result of the assault weapons ban] would be less likely to have demonstrably negative consequences. If, on the other hand, offenders substituted shotguns for assault weapons, there could be negative consequences for gun violence mortality. "Gary Kleck in Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control(Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York, 1997) after examining the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports for the years 1976 to 1992, reports "the rate of killings with four or more victims was higher in 1976-1982, prior to the popularity of assault weapons, than in 1983-1992. Regardless of the numerical cutoff defining mass shootings, there was no increase in such incidents associated with the increased popularity of assault weapons after 1984".Dr. Kleck also states that "Oddly enough, mass killings are actually less likely to involve the use of guns of any kind than homicides involving small numbers of victims. For all murders and non negligent manslaughters covered in Supplementary Homicide Reports (about 90% of all U.S. killings) for the period 1976 to 1992, only 48.3% of victims killed in incidents with four or more victims were killed with guns, compared to 62.3% of those killed in incidents with three or fewer victims. This is mainly due to the large share of mass killings committed with arson, which is rarely involved in ordinary homicides."Incidentally, there are an estimated 4 million assault rifles in the U.S., which amounts to roughly 1.7% of the total gun stock. (Institute for Research on Small Arms in International Security, Assault Rifle Fact Sheet #2, 1989)Assault Weapons Easily Converted to Full-auto?Not according to LAPD Detective Jimmy Trahin, testifying before the California State Assembly (Feb. 13,1989):... over 4,000 guns that came into the custody of our unit last year, less than 120 would be classified as this military-type weapon. Of those, only ten or less than ten were actually illegally converted to fully-automatic machine gun stocks. Why? Because these military style assault weapons of today are not easily and readily convertible without extensive knowledge of modifications to the weapon and/or substitution of available parts. (source)These miliatry style assault weapons of today are not easily and readily convertible without extensive knowledge and modifications to the weapon and/or substitution of available parts.Now, in my 12 years within the unit, considering the enormous amount of firearms that we have taken into custody, and that's over fifty-thousand, I would say, and these inlcuded ones from the hardcore gangs, and from the drug dealers, our unit has never, ever, had one AK-47 converted, one Ruger Mini-14 converted, an H&K 91, 93 never converted, an AR-180 never converted. So this media blitz of many of these assault weapons, or supposedly military style weapons are being converted to full automatic is not true. (source) (additional source)For Further ReadingKopel, David B., Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition, 20 J. of Contemp. L. 381-417.(1994)_____, The Assault Weapon Panic (242K), Independence Issue Paper No. 12-91, Independence Institute._____, Assault Ban Chicanery, originally printed in the Washington Times, May 5, 1994, Thursday, p. A18._____, Are so-called "Assault Weapons" a Threat to Police Officers?, originally printed in the Sept./Oct. 1997 of The Law Enforcement Trainer, the official publication of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training.Tonso, William R., Shooting Blind, Reason, June, 2000.For Viewing"The Truth About Semi-Auto Firearms."
What was the US's biggest mistake during the Battle of Normandy?
More troops should have been dropped behind the beachfront to take out the artillary and to stop the assault on the landing craft. Heavier bombing of the bunkers before the landing could have been effective as well. In general, it's easy to evaluate what SHOULD have been done after we see the results. The Allied forces did the best they could under the circumstances, given the current state of their technology.
