[Sender]

Personally I think all hunting weapons taken into the field should have environmentally-approved spark arrestors, great big quiet ones. It's the right thing to do for mother Earth.

[TLI]

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them. "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here." -- U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D/CA) speaking of her authorship of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban on "60 Minutes" 2/5/95

and the war would have been over no later than oh.. `97 or so.

I wonder if any of the anti-guners have a clue just how close this country got to open resistance and overt action when the AWB came along.