[backhoe]

AWB renewal hysteria in the making?

I suspect that's where they are trying to take this. Already a number of states are harping on the need for further state-level AW bans. Some details scattered among the links here:

-Smart Guns / Foolish Legislators--The Assault Weapons Ban May Be Bush's Undoing--

[b4its2late]

The startling seizure prompted Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Nassau) to call for a renewal of the 1994 federal ban on assault weapons, which is slated to expire Sept. 13.

Like that would've stopped the shipment....

[ought-six]

Illinois Governor Blagodimwit is hot to trot to ban ALL semi-autos, even shotguns.