Posted on 09/08/2004 11:45:17 PM PDT by risk
Gun Makers Already Market Assault Weapons Gun Manufacturers, Facing Federal Ban, Already Marketing Assault Weapons, Study Finds
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Sept. 7, 2004 — With the federal ban on assault weapons set to expire next Monday, gun manufacturers are marketing military-style firearms and are ready to sell them as soon as Sept. 14, a consumer group said Tuesday.
"The gun industry is champing at the bit for the ban to expire," said Susan Peschin, firearms project director at the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit association of 300 consumer groups that released the study.
The consumer group interviewed gun industry experts and marketing representatives and surveyed manufacturers' catalogs and Web sites.
For example, ArmaLite Inc., a gun manufacturer in Geneseo, Ill., is advertising a "Post-PostBan Rifle Program," offering consumers attachments to convert their firearms to their pre-ban configuration, with shipping available Sept. 14. The company is offering a nonrefundable prepayment option to those who wish to get a jump-start.
"The program offers customers a way to avoid the risk of delay, yet also have the benefits of a change in law," the company says on its Web site.
The 1994 law, signed by President Clinton, banned 19 types of assault weapons but included a "sunset" clause that said it would automatically expire in 10 years if Congress did not renew it.
President Bush has said he supports the ban, but a number of attempts to extend it in Congress have failed.
The Consumer Federation of America predicted that manufacturers will introduce new models of popular weapons banned under the 1994 law, such as AK-47s, TEC-9s and Uzis.
Manufacturers will also be able to circumvent a ban on the import of "non-sporting" assault weapons by combining foreign-made components with U.S.-made parts, the study said.
It said it also expects more U.S. gun companies will stockpile imported firearms in "custom bonded warehouses" in the United States to be disassembled and reconfigured into legal weapons.
In April, Florida-based Century International Arms Inc., an importer-exporter, was linked to a cache of 7,500 AK-47s and other assault weapons seized in Italy en route to the United States.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the weapons were cleared for the United States because they were bound for a custom-bonded warehouse to be reconfigured.
Gun-control advocates are calling for an extension of the ban and also want to expand background checks on gun purchasers to include sales by private collectors at gun shows and flea markets. Opponents say both measures are unneeded.
"What we ought to be concerned about is firearms in the hands of criminals, not in the hands of law-abiding citizens," said Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs for the National Rifle Association.
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see if you can spot all the lies and distortions by police chief bratton...
Not a single word about the second amendment yet, why we'd have a second amendment, or why we would have to re-ammend the constitution in order to ban military-grade rifles (in the eyes of the founding fathers).
It's not about hunting...
Did Reagan support the ban? Did Ford and George HW Bush?
Ford signed a letter for it, and so did bush the first. (Bush also signed the 89 import ban, which is one of the reasons he was a one termer).
IIRC reagan signed, but it was as a favor to brady, and very soon before it was revealed he was suffering from alzheimer's.
Bratton is a lying POS. I used to like Koppel, but not for quite a while. He's so slanted now. It was so obvious tonight.
Profitting from treason...
Actually, in ND, if you want to take a semi-automatic AK variant and go deer hunting with a full 40 round magazine, you can (legally, no less). (I don't know why anyone would need to or want to carry all that extra ammo, but the option is open to the individual.) :^)
The good news about hit pieces like the above is that it means they got off-message. Too tough to bash Bush for much on this issue.
They can rant about the AWB, but it's dead, too!
And right now we're running out the clock both on DNC smears against Bush as well as against the AWB, so the more that they flail about off-message, the better for us.
3 Full Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
A hit piece on the Average White Band?
..Its' the rug (wig), he's wearing...too much pressure. :/
BAN ASSAULT PEOPLE
Not the weapons honest citizens need to defend their loved ones against them
When the next big hurricane comes through....the whole USA will better understand why
citizens need weapons to defend their own lives..the lifes of their loved ones and the lives and property of their neighbors...
In Grenada the hurricane brought out looters....and the Cuban prisoners that necessitated our invasion are now also loosed on the un armed populace...
BAN ASSAULT PEOPLE
"In April, Florida-based Century International Arms Inc., an importer-exporter, was linked to a cache of 7,500 AK-47s and other assault weapons seized in Italy en route to the United States."
I have one of their Romanian AK's. It's a nice gun!
It isn't a "reel" AWB...SAW nooooze debate unless nukes are brought up by the socialist idiots parroting their talking point diatribe they have been fed by their handlers. No mention of personal nukes makes this a fake angst by the talking head and should be ignored.........:o)
Monitoring CSPAN's coverage of the seditious lemmings leadership in congress right now . All shit'n shineola show thus far.... Smoke and mirrors thang in progress while their little trolls are hammering out a "total ban" on SAW's......
Stay safe !
You all have called your congresscritters (good or bad) about this by now, right?
Stay safe !
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