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Is this even showing up on anybodies radar screen out side of the pro-second amendment community and the gun control crowd?

No. I talk to plenty of gun owners who've never even heard of the AWB. That tells me that the large majority of the general population have no clue such a thing even exists.

I feel that the NRA has failed to do a good job educating their members, let alone the public, about such things as "assault weapons", etc. I saw a an article with a poll that said an April 23 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, a research arm of the University of Pennsylvania, found that 71 percent of the public supports continuation of the ban, compared with 23 percent opposed.

Among gun-owning households, 64 percent support the ban, according to the Annenberg survey of 28,446 adults. In homes with an NRA member, 46 percent said they want to extend the prohibition, compared with 49 percent opposing the law.

The numbers for the gun owner homes should be more like under 30% for extending and 70+% against the ban and the NRA homes should be more like less than 5% for extending and 95+% against the ban. That alone would bring the % of public support down and the % of public opposition up, although if done right the public would also be lower than those numbers.