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Iowa Law Enforcement Support Strengthening and Renewing Assault Weapons Ban 3/15/2004 Press Release Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence 4403 1st Ave. SE, Suite 113 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-3221 www.ipgv.org Contact: John Johnson Phone: 319-743-7823 The current assault weapons ban, enacted in 1994, will expire six months from now unless renewed by Congress and signed by the President Cedar Rapids, IA - Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence (IPGV) joined with States United to Prevent Gun Violence, the national coalition of independent state-based organizations, today (March 12th) to urge President Bush and Congress to strengthen and renew the...

Lying With Pictures Starring: The Violence Policy Center (VPC) in their soul-touching, truth-twisting "tribute"...Officer Down! I was perusing the Violence Policy Center website recently, and it came to my attention that the very same folks who touted the 1994 "Assault Weapons" ban as "essential" to reduce gun crime, now claim that it is the fault of the MANUFACTURERS that the guns they sought to ban, based upon cosmetics and "evil looking features" are still on the market, minus the "evil features" they said were so dangerous, like flash suppressors, folding shoulder stocks, and bayonet lugs. I guess I could see...

It's like the Godfather meets Romeo and Juliet with a touch of Quentin Tarantino thrown in - but this tale of warring families and murders is not a slick Hollywood production, it's life on the streets of south-west Sydney. On Tuesday, a carload of balaclava-clad men screeched up to a suburban Greenacre home in the dead of night, killing two people in a hail of about 100 bullets. The deaths brought the body count in the long-running suburban war between two Sydney families to three, after another deadly shooting outside a mosque in August. In the days after the Lawford...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment rights group said Thursday that information publicized by a gun control group proves the pro-gun argument that regulating the behavior of law-abiding citizens does little or nothing to prevent crimes committed by outlaws using firearms. Americans for Gun Safety (AGS), a pro-gun control group that promotes itself as the voice of moderation in the Second Amendment debate, issued several press releases in mid-August decrying the "Nation's Leading Gun Trafficking States" and listing the 10 worst offenders. "Illegal gun traffickers have figured out that the feds simply don't enforce the gun laws on the...

NY Woman On Trial for Killing Her Boyfriend Over Abortion Brooklyn, NY -- A Brooklyn woman, who admitted she shot her boyfriend dead during a fight in their car over whether she should have an abortion, will get her day in court next week. Lesa White, 38, the mother of the couple's two kids, is expected to take the witness stand in her defense Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that could have sent her to prison for 20 years. But she convinced a judge to allow her to withdraw the plea...

<! --------- Body of the press release is inserted below----------------------------------> The NRA, the gun industry, the gun press, and other pro-gun "experts" today claim that there is no such thing as a civilian assault weapon. But before the guns came under fire, these same experts enthusiastically described these civilian versions of military weapons as "assault rifles," "assault pistols," and "military assault" weapons. For example: In 1982, Guns & Ammo published a book titled Assault Rifles, advertising "Complete Data On The Best Semi-Automatics."[1] In 1988 Guns & Ammo handgun expert Jan Libourel defined an "assault pistol" simply as, "A high-capacity semi-automatic...