Because the Crime Prevention Analysis Heart has usually identified, tv crime reveals appear to assume criminals continuously use machine weapons to commit crime. Sadly, CBS’s FBI Worldwide isn’t any totally different (Season 3, Episode 12, Could 14, 2024). This episode reveals folks in a excessive tech theft ring utilizing machine weapons to kill FBI brokers and a witness who noticed a homicide.
In actual life, criminals usually use machine weapons so not often that a 2016 survey of jail inmates solely broke down the numbers for makes use of in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey didn’t point out absolutely automated weapons. An analogous discovering is obtainable from the FBI UCR report, the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any kind, and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a cause for that. Since 1934, there was just one doable recognized use of a civilian utilizing a machine gun in a homicide. And even earlier than 1934, they have been very uncommon.
Examples of comparable tv reveals may be discovered right here.
FBI Worldwide, Season 3, Episode 12, Could 14, 2024
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