"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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If you get a chance, tune into Nightline tonight.

TONIGHT'S FOCUS: For 10 years, it has been illegal in this country to
manufacture or distribute some of the most deadly semi-automatic guns
in the world. ......

The fact of the matter is that these rifles are no more "deadly" than an
other gun. There only "flaw" (if you will) is that they look like the REAL
Assault Rifles used by the military. They are intended for civilian target
shooters who must (by the rules) use guns that look like current military
rifles to compete in military matches. Check the stat's - how many murders
are committed with them?


In 1994, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed the assault
weapons ban, ....

Yes and anticipating that the price of these guns would more than tripple a
federally licensed gun dealer named David Koresh bought 100+ legal semi-auto
receivers - the part BATF considers a gun - and an equal number of BATF
approved kits to make these into heavy-barreled target rifles. BATF then FBI
attacked and killed him and over 50 fellow Branch Dividians.

Sometime later DC police arrested two men carrying illegal full-auto Uzi
machine guns that had been illegally brought into the country after the ban.
They were released and these illegal machine guns returned when it developed
that they worked for Senator Ted Kennedy.

.... Of course, this wasn't a complete ban - ........

Do you know the difference between a banned rifle and a legal target rifle?
The banned rifle has a bayonet lug. How does that make it more deadly?

But now, 10 years later, polls show most Americans support the law.

Not in my neck of the woods.