More salient for the “gun control” conversation, however, is the focus on so-called “assault rifles.” It turns out that murders by all rifles (as reported by the FBI), including homicides by those semi-automatic rifles that some refer to as “assault rifles,” were only 248 of those murders. Further contextualizing this statistic is that the total number of murders committed by people’s hands and feet came to 660 – more than double the homicides committed by all rifles. More precisely, there were 142% more murders by hands and feet in 2014 than by all rifles combined. -Kyle Becker

Since the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004 (which also had the arbitrary 10 round limit) violent crime rates have declined. According to FBI Uniform Crime Reports for 2011, there were a little over 300 cases of rifle-related deaths and over 1600 cases of knife-related deaths. Democrats target rifles and their magazines because they’ve predicated loss of life directly on said rifles and magazines. Fort Hood and Virginia Tech (which saw greater carnage) were carried out using handguns.