Heston:
"AK-47's are inappropriate for private ownership, of course."
...
"I just got through telling you. The possession - private possession of AK-47's is entirely inappropriate."
...
"Well, for any certain time, AK-47"s are entirely inappropriate for private ownership..."
DATE May 6, 1997
TIME 8:00 - 9:00 AM (PT)
STATION KGO-AM (ABC)
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/stn/1997/pirn9711.htmHeston:
"Thank you for asking me for a clarification of my comments in an
interview on KGO radio. When I spoke of AK-47 firearms on May 6th, I
was talking about the Soviet military rifle -- a fully automatic, not a
semiautomatic, firearm -- and what I thought was common knowledge.
Namely, that federal law has strictly regulated the private ownership of
such fully automatic firearms for 63 years.
"I didn't favor a cap put on this procedure in 1986 by the United States
Congress because no legally owned fully-automatic firearm had ever been
used in a crime.
"Regrettably, the distinction between classes of firearms is still not
understood thanks to distortions spread by the media and those who'd
destroy the Second Amendment.
"That's why I lobbied against the Clinton gun ban as a private citizen in
1994, and that is why I'll be honored to continue defending the Second
Amendment as First Vice President of the National Rifle Association."
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