are among the least likely to be actually misused. But you knew that.

For those who have not read the FBI data on gun use in homicide, I'll repost here...

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime...

Total murders...........................12,996.....100.00%
Handguns.................................6,009......46.24%
Firearms (type unknown)..................2,035......15.66%
Other weapons (non-firearm, non-edged)...1,772......13.63%
Edged weapons............................1,704......13.11%
Hands, feet, etc...........................745.......5.73%
Shotguns...................................373.......2.87%
Rifles.....................................358.......2.75%

If one assumes that the handgun/shotgun/rifle breakdown in the "firearm, type not recorded" row is similar to the breakdown where the type was recorded, then the percentages with "unknowns" rolled in would look something like this:

Total murders...........................12,996.....100.00%
Handguns.................................6,950......53.48%
Other weapons (non-firearm, non-edged)...1,772......13.63%
Edged weapons............................1,704......13.11%
Hands, feet, etc...........................745.......5.73%
Shotguns...................................431.......3.32%
Rifles.....................................414.......3.19%

FWIW, as long as the gun-control lobby's #1 goal is to outlaw the ownership of popular civilian gun models by people with clean records, they are going to continue to fail spectacularly. One would think that the utter failure of trying to legislate 19th century rifle aesthetics would have sunk in by now...