If they take the "assault rifles", they're coming for handguns next.

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Most assailants use handguns, not rifles, in "mass shootings": A new study from the Crime Prevention Research Center that looks at the data from public mass shootings over the last 25 years has confirmed what many Second Amendment advocates have long known — the most common firearms used in so-called "mass shootings" are handguns, not rifles. The study also noted that most shootings took place in supposed "gun-free zones" and would not have been prevented by a law requiring universal background checks. The study's author and founder of the center, John Lott Jr., pointed out that one of the biggest problems is with the term "mass shooting," observing: "The big thing that irritates me is you have somebody like [President] Biden go and say, 'We have Uvalde, and we've had 600 more attacks like this.' That's simply false because they're just putting apples and oranges together." The anti-Second Amendment lobby loves to target the AR-15, erroneously dubbing it an "assault rifle," as if that type of firearm is the problem and responsible for most mass shootings. But the facts don't come close to backing up the narrative. Irrespective of the firearm used in these crimes, every one of these attacks is committed by individuals with criminal intent to break the law.