The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Inc, AKA Brady Bunch, AKA Handgun Control Inc., etc. is on a roll again. They released a report in November dated October 2008 called Assault Weapons: “Mass Produced Mayhem”.
They attribute their sub-title to the BAFTE: The phrase “mass produced mayhem” is taken from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive’s description of assault weapons in its “Assault Weapons Profile” (April 1994).
The Executive Summary opens with: Assault weapons are military-style weapons of war, made for offensive military assaults.
The report then goes on and lists a list of guns that are not considered assault weapons by the BATFE they so lovingly quote. Later, the Brady Bunch mentions a whole bunch of shootings with semi-automatic firearms. An assault weapon used in war is fully automatic, so most of the stories in this report do not have anything to do with assault weapons.
This bunch of people also likes to spread the fallacy of “weapons of choice” for criminals and gang members.