Activists Mount Last-Ditch Bid to Extend Gun Ban

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/7/04 | Joanne Kenen - Reuters

[flashbunny]

hey, what does it matter? It sounds dramatic, and it scares people. Let's print it!

[supercat]

Yep. I'm waiting to get some more high caps for my Glock and I'll probably slap a folding stock on my AK as well.

Unless the AK was imported before 1990, adding a folding stock would violate Bush's 1990 ugly-gun edict.

[flashbunny]

threaded barrels, flash hiders and bayonet lugs were legal all along, just not in combination with two other 'evil' items (for rifles)

[TLI]

4 DAYS . . . 23 HOURS

[Squantos]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209542/posts?page=12#12

Oh course I have !............:o)

Stay safe !

[Widows Son]

Is it just me, or is there something very signifigant that he is holding an empty gun? Somehow it seems very appropriate.

[Melas]

Can't be true. I just read recently that automobile accidents account for most SCI's, so how could guns be accountable for 90%?

[philman_36]

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

[William Tell]

Billthedrill said: "This stuff took all of 30 seconds to check. Reuters didn't."

Few of us subscribe directly to Reuters. Instead, some of us subscribe to liberal newspapers which print this false garbage.

If you are a Freeper who pays such a liberal newspaper several hundred dollars a year to have them publish such lies, then you are paying your hard earned money to people who are working to destroy what you believe in.

Stop it. Stop now. Send a copy of the posted Reuter's article to your newspaper and tell them that you will re-subscribe when they cease printing these lies.

[tertiary01]

What do you want to bet that within a week or so of it expiring there will be a oh so convenient shooting incident that they will blame on Bush!!

[kitchen]

From a link provided at the National Institute of Health Spinal Cord Injuries page:

Spinalcord Injury Information Network

Facts and Figures at a Glance - August 2004

Etiology:
Since 2000, motor vehicle crashes account for 50.4% of reported SCI cases. The next most common cause of SCI is falls, followed by acts of violence (primarily gunshot wounds), and recreational sporting activities. The proportion of injuries that are due to sports has decreased over time while the proportion of injuries due to falls has increased. Acts of violence caused 13.3% of spinal cord injuries prior to 1980, and peaked between 1990 and 1999 at 21.8% before declining to only 11.2% since 2000.

Amy Sisley of Physicians for Social Responsibility is clearly a liar.

[FreeReign]

Gun control activists, health care advocates and law enforcement groups geared up on Tuesday for a last-ditch effort to prevent a 1994 ban on assault weapons from expiring next week, but even its most ardent backers acknowledge the drive is all but futile.

Hillary will make this ban expiration a big part of her campaign in 2008. Look what those mean Republicans did, is what she will say.

She is hoping that the ban fails now, just like in '94 she hoped Newt would succeed in getting a big R class.

The Clintons have always needed a "bogeyman" to run against.

[Richard-SIA]

UZI's are now made in Utah, and very available RIGHT NOW, if you can pay the price.

AK's are full-auto and not available, the guns sold since the Bush-1 ban are MAK-90's, and readily available RIGHT NOW.

So the author of this piece has no real clue what they are talking about.

The "ban's" that are set to expire affect only domestically made guns and magazines holding over ten rounds.

These bans will have no real effect on imported guns, and no real effect on the availability of "assault weapons", except that a few U.S. manufacturers may put the deleted items back on their products.

[Richard-SIA]

The FIRST thing I did today was to call my senators and congressman demanding that the damn "ban's" die on time.

[Redcloak]

[bt_dooftlook]

I think that bogus quote leaped out at everyone. There is no way to slice the data to show that the vast majority of spinal injuries are NOT coming from
a) motor vehicle accidents (esp motorcycle, ATV, and snowmobiles
b) sports (at all levels)
c) workplace (e.g. construction)

What think you?

[elmer fudd]

I disagree. According to the ATF my AK has more than 50% US content and is not an imported gun. Thus it's not subject to the 1989 import rules.

[Richard-SIA]

ARGHH!

THAT sentiment is a problem.

Bad news for you, the ban that is expiring only relates to DOMESTICALLY produced firearms.

Imports will still be restricted, via Bush-1's executive order AW ban.

We need to demand that the first AW Ban also be repealed, if only to prevent so many citizens inadvertently taking actions that could result in their prosecution for breaking a law they do not fully understand.

It seems to me that there is a legal principle that any law which is too arcane for easy understanding by the average citizen is supposed to be unconstitutional, but I am not a lawyer and could be mistaken.

[Unknowing]

". . . any law which is too arcane for easy understanding by the average citizen. . . "

Nah, it has been shown that even most lawyers don't understand the Rule Against Perpetuities, for example. And arguing about difficult to understand laws is business as usual.

[cajun-jack]

when you have an accident, the gun in your backseat goes off and shoots you in the back!!!!

Didn't you learn anything in elementary school?? I'm sure they taught that to you. ( lol )