[smokingfrog]

Your answer is 100% spot on.

Don't forget Bill Bennett was in on the gun import ban too.

Bennett claimed that “assault weapons” were the firearms of choice for violent drug dealers. The claim, of course, was nonsense.

[Charles Martel]

Yes, I remember Bill Bennett’s role back then. The 1989 Semi-Auto Import Ban was also given some political cover by the domestic gun manufacturers who supported limiting the competition. I’ve always suspected that Bill Ruger’s policy on magazine capacity was somehow tied to this.