Bush, NRA at odds on weapons ban

Washington Times ^ | Friday, May 8, 2003 | By James G. Lakely

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President Bush's support for renewing a ban on so-called "assault weapons" has rankled the National Rifle Association, but the chance of such a bill reaching the president's desk is "zero," said a top House Republican aide.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, and seven other Senate gun-control advocates introduced a bill yesterday to reauthorize the ban on several types of semiautomatic rifles. The law, signed by President Clinton in 1994, is scheduled to expire Sept. 13, 2004.

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Friday, May 8, 2003

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[mercy]

It's crap like this that makes me ever distrustful of GWB. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop. I expect him to send Powell to kiss up with Chirac any day now. Ever since he signed the campaign finance POS I have felt this way. Before he was elected I doubted him because his father betrayed the Reagan Revolution. Basicly I still feel the same way. I can't tell if he'll stand up and act like a real conservative in his second term or he'll get all liberal on us like the family he comes from. OK OK I know .... he's OUR president and he's done well. He's also acted like and governed like a rat several times. There is just something not right with the man I fear.