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Bush Backs Renewing Assault Weapons Ban
Washington Post ^ | April 12, 2003 | Unknown

Posted on 04/12/2003 7:50:38 AM PDT by Mini-14

The Bush administration is bucking the National Rifle Association and supporting a renewal of the assault weapons ban, set to expire just before the presidential election. "The president supports the current law, and he supports reauthorization of the current law," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told Knight Ridder.

Tossing out the ban on semiautomatic weapons is a top priority of the NRA. Bush said during his presidential campaign that he supported the ban, but it was less clear whether he would support an extension.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; assaultweapons; bang; banglist; firearm; firearms; georgebush; gun; guncontrol; guns
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1 posted on 04/12/2003 7:50:38 AM PDT by Mini-14
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To: *bang_list
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2 posted on 04/12/2003 7:51:09 AM PDT by Mini-14
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To: *bang_list; Travis McGee
bang
3 posted on 04/12/2003 7:51:21 AM PDT by Mulder (No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough)
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To: Mini-14
Say good-bye to a TON of votes.
4 posted on 04/12/2003 7:51:52 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Mini-14
This can't be true!?!

Please let this article be wrong!
5 posted on 04/12/2003 7:52:47 AM PDT by MonroeDNA (Communists & Socialists: They only survive through lies.)
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To: Mini-14
How long until the bots come and start posting that this is all part of some "brilliant plan" by Bush?
6 posted on 04/12/2003 7:52:48 AM PDT by Mulder (No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough)
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To: Squantos; Shooter 2.5; harpseal
Ping
7 posted on 04/12/2003 7:52:58 AM PDT by Teacher317
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This seems a good place for one of my favorite taglines.
8 posted on 04/12/2003 7:53:38 AM PDT by newgeezer (Admit it; Amendment XIX is very much to blame.)
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To: Mulder
Along with the brilliant plan to increase the federal budget by 20% in the past two years, while we've been criticizing Clinton's budgets as too large and wasteful.
9 posted on 04/12/2003 7:53:54 AM PDT by Teacher317
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10 posted on 04/12/2003 7:54:15 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Teacher317
Along with the brilliant plan to increase the federal budget by 20% in the past two years, while we've been criticizing Clinton's budgets as too large and wasteful.

Hey we're at war. If you don't like it, you can move to Iraq.

/sarcasm

11 posted on 04/12/2003 7:54:36 AM PDT by Mulder (No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough)
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To: Mini-14
Tossing out the ban on semiautomatic weapons is a top priority of the NRA.

More slanted reporting, it's due to sunset, go out of existance, cease to exist.

Die, vile legislation, Die!
12 posted on 04/12/2003 7:54:50 AM PDT by tet68 (Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
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To: Mini-14
Bush said during his presidential campaign that he supported the ban

Does anyone remember this? Any links?

13 posted on 04/12/2003 7:54:59 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Mini-14
The war on the Second Amendment can best be described as a Quagmire.
14 posted on 04/12/2003 7:55:52 AM PDT by Bluntpoint
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sad, i wont vote for him again if he does.
15 posted on 04/12/2003 7:55:59 AM PDT by toothless (I AM A MAN)
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To: Mini-14
This is my issue and this is my litmus test, and he's going to fail it.
16 posted on 04/12/2003 7:56:32 AM PDT by lainie
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To: lainie
You bet. I will not vote for Bush if he truly supports this. He's showing his true colors.
17 posted on 04/12/2003 7:57:24 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: lainie
Same here Lainie.
18 posted on 04/12/2003 7:57:29 AM PDT by chnsmok
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To: Teacher317
Oops... I found seome... In his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush came out for renewal and for an additional provision to ban the import of ammunition- feeding devices of 10 bullets or more.
19 posted on 04/12/2003 7:59:22 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: chnsmok
I am still ducking. Noone here to defend him yet?
20 posted on 04/12/2003 7:59:31 AM PDT by chnsmok
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