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| | Assault weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | There was also a federal Assault Weapons Ban in the United States which expired in 2004. | | | There are a variety of different statutory definitions in local, state, and federal laws in the United States that define assault weapons by a set of characteristics they possess. | | | In the United States, nearly a dozen States have their own differing assault weapons laws. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon
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| | GunCite: Assault Weapon Panic |
| | When California's "assault weapon" prohibition was challenged as violating the Second Amendment, the federal trial court, relying on Cruikshank, ruled that the Second Amendment could not be violated by state-level gun control, since the Second Amendment only restricts the federal government. | | | Supporters of "assault weapon" prohibition argue that the Second Amendment only grants to states a right to maintain a militia. | | | Legislators concerned about criminal misuse of "assault weapons" would better serve their constituents by doing more to enforce existing laws on possession and use of guns by felons. |
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http://www.guncite.com/asw.html
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| | Fact Sheet: Assault Weapons Ban |
| | Assault weapons legislation not only disarms honest hunters and sportsmen while not further troubling the thug and his already illegal and far more deadly sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, but it also cuts out the heart of the Second Amendment to our Constitution. | | | In other words, a true assault weapon is a machine gun which is already regulated by federal law. | | | Those who argue that the authors of the Second Amendment did not intend to protect the right of ordinary American citizens to own military-style weapons must contend with the fact that the same Congress which passed the Second Amendment also passed the Militia Act of 1792. |
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http://www.gunowners.org/fs9403.htm
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| | The information resource for the expiration of the 1994 semiauto ban! |
| | The bill seeking to impose a ban on assault weapons was killed for this year's session Thursday by a unanimous vote of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee after the sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ethan Strimling of Portland, acknowledged flaws with the proposal. | | | The prohibition on assault weapons in Maine makes sense and should become law, while the bill's other restrictions related to.50-caliber rifles and ammunition should be removed. | | | Instead, he is backing a bill that would set minimum sentences for those who use assault weapons to commit crimes. |
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http://www.awbansunset.com
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| | Brady Campaign - Assault Weapons Threaten Our Safety and Security |
| | Preventing violent criminals from obtaining and using assault weapons against innocent people and law enforcement officers must be the highest priority for local officials. | | | Several states have already enacted laws to protect their residents by restricting assault weapons. | | | In response, several states and cities have enacted stronger local laws to prevent the sale of all assault weapons. |
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http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/issuebriefs/aw_safesec.asp
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| | The information resource for the expiration of the 1994 semiauto ban! |
| | (D) the manufacture, transfer, or possession of a semiautomatic assault weapon by a licensed manufacturer or licensed importer for the purposes of testing or experimentation authorized by the Secretary. | | | (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the possession or transfer of any semiautomatic assault weapon otherwise lawfully possessed under Federal law on the date of the enactment of this subsection. | | | (C) the possession, by an individual who is retired from service with a law enforcement agency and is not otherwise prohibited from receiving a firearm, of a semiautomatic assault weapon transferred to the individual by the agency upon such retirement; or |
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| | NRA-ILA :: Fact Sheets |
| | "Assault pistols" were prohibited from importation in 1993. | | | "Efforts to restrict assault weapons are more likely to succeed than those to restrict handguns." | | | "Assault Weapons": Military-Style Semi-Automatic Firearms Facts and Issues, May 13, 1992, 92-434 GOV. |
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http://www.nraila.org/issues/factsheets/read.aspx?id=158
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| | Columbus City Council - Assault Weapon Ban |
| | That ordinance provides an exemption from the prohibition on possessing an assault weapon for those weapons lawfully owned and possessed prior to August 11, 2005, so long as the owner files a completed registration form with the License Section within 90 days of the effective date. | | | Thursday, February 17, 2005: Unsafe, unregulated weapons briefing. | | | Thursday, February 3, 2005: Unsafe, unregulated weapons briefing. |
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http://www.columbuscitycouncil.org/assaultweaponban
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| | "ASSAULT WEAPONS" (gunsandcrime) |
| | Some of the laws about so-called "assault weapons" define the subjects of the laws in terms of certain characteristics. For example, the federal law includes "any semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least 2 of..." and then lists five features or sets of features: | | | Bookmark for later reading this very good document by David Kopel, of the Independence Institute, about the logical basis of "assault weapon" bans legislation and this article by William Tonso about "assault weapons" and media coverage about them. | | | People clamour for restricting or banning "assault weapons" and say that such weapons have "awesome power" or "awesome firepower," "spew" bullets, are "high power, |
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http://www.gunsandcrime.org/asltweps.html
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| | Assault Weapons |
| | Help keep this site up - please donate! | | | We have taken notice of the Brady Campaign's statements that the new "FN Five Seven" pistol is known to be the weapon of choice for criminals against police officers. | | | We were dismayed to find no evidence that the assault weapon was involved in any spontaneous acts of violence. |
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http://www.assaultweaponwatch.com
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| | What Is an Assault Weapon? - At last, you can get a semiautomatic rifle with a bayonet. By Brendan I. Koerner |
| | The ban didn't change the allowable caliber, didn't change the range of the bullets, and, since fully automatic weapons haven't been legal since the 30s, and grenades haven't been legal ever, didn't make any difference in rate of fire or how many grenades you were allowed to have. | | | The law's authors had to be as precise as possible in crafting the ban, since the phrase "assault weapon" isn't really part of the gun-making vocabulary. | | | The only real heavy-hitter here is that the magazine capacity was very limited under the ban, and, now, is not. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2106813
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