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The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments over whether governments may ban AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles. But new data raises an obvious question: What problem are these bans actually solving?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a new Crime Prevention Research Center analysis<\/a> of FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data<\/a>, rifles account for a remarkably small (and declining) share of firearm murders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CPRC\u2019s analysis shows estimated AR-15 and AK-47 ownership rising sharply while rifles\u2019 share of firearm murders declined.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Before the federal \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban took effect in September 1994, rifles accounted for 4.8% of firearm murders. During the 1995\u20132004 ban period, the number was 4.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the ban barely moved the needle. It was like flipping a light switch that wasn\u2019t connected to anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the ban expired, the rifle share dropped to 3.6%. Looking only at the first 10 years following its expiration, it was 3.86%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put another way, imagine lining up 100 firearm murders. Fewer than four would involve any kind of rifle, not just an AR-15 or AK-style firearm, but every type of rifle combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That broader category matters because the FBI figures do not isolate AR-15s. Those rifles represent only some portion of an already small total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is where the numbers become even more interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPRC estimates that the number of AR-15s and AK-style rifles increased from approximately one per 100 Americans in 2004 to 10.2 per 100 in 2025. That is a tenfold increase in ownership, yet rifles\u2019 share of firearm murders went down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the mere availability of these firearms drove murder, we would expect both lines to climb together. Instead, one shot upward while the other fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: AR10 Tested: Cold War Legend Meets Modern .308<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That does not prove growing AR-15 ownership caused the decline. But it certainly makes it difficult to argue that adding millions of these rifles to civilian hands produced a corresponding increase in murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court will hear the consolidated cases of Viramontes v. Cook County<\/em> and Grant v. Higgins<\/em> on Dec. 2. The official question<\/a> is whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to possess AR-15-platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics will not decide the constitutional question by themselves. Rights do not disappear simply because a government claims its restrictions might improve public safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, if politicians want to justify banning one of America\u2019s most popular rifles, they should at least explain why their preferred target occupies such a tiny, and shrinking, slice of the murder problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exactly are these rifle bans supposed to accomplish?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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