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To: Copernicus
Guns - specifically assault weapons: We concur generally with President Bush's position in support of a ban on the sale and possession of truly automatic (assault) weapons - e.g., those weapons that fire multiple rounds when the trigger is pulled but once, and keep firing until the trigger is released or the magazine spent.

It sounds like what this guy is trying to say is that semi-autos are not military weapons and should not be called "assault weapons", and that's an important distinction to be made in the press. I think most of us would agree on that part.

Unfortunately, he is wrong, semi-autos were the target of the AW ban, by people who purposely misled people into thinking that the ban affected military weapons. And now that's what he supports. Basically the 1934 restrictions (taxation actually) on full-autos, not the Feinstein Law.

10 posted on 06/10/2003 6:20:30 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: Kenton
"At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that news is not something that happens to other people. "
Source: Jake in Number of the Beast. R.A. Heinlein.

There are many people in our government, and our media, that need to experience "running for their life".

11 posted on 06/10/2003 6:41:19 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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