More TV Police Shows Bias on Guns: CBS’s S.W.A.T. shows more criminals using machine guns

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 computerized weapons. An analogous discovering is obtainable from the FBI UCR report, the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any sort, and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a motive for that. Since 1934, there was just one potential recognized use of a civilian utilizing a machine gun in a homicide. And even earlier than 1934, they have been very uncommon.

This episode of CBS’ S.W.A.T. exhibits criminals utilizing machine weapons to commit a theft (Season 7, Episode 11, Could 3, 2024).

Examples of comparable tv exhibits could be discovered right here.

SWAT, Season 7, Episode 11, Could 3, 2024