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Showdown on guns is near ('94 AW ban)
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) ^
| 24 February 2003
| Bruce Alpert
Posted on 02/24/2003 12:33:57 PM PST by 45Auto
Edited on 07/14/2004 12:59:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: 45Auto
public reaction to several high-profile shootings involving semiautomatic weapons tinfoil hat firmly in place
There will be another high-profile shooting in the months before the vote.
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posted on
02/24/2003 12:58:49 PM PST
by
MrB
To: MrB
You can count on it. It wil involve an "affected weapon", and heck, a middle easterner for good measures.
To: Dan from Michigan
He'll sign it, just like he signed CFR and that monstrous farm aid bill.
To: 45Auto
This should be interesting.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:01:48 PM PST
by
stevio
To: Billthedrill
"This law began with misrepresentation and was twisted after passage to include all sorts of firearms the original bill never listed..."You're exactly right;
the whole point of this law was to put something in place that could be imnterpreted in any way desired. What the Clintonians NEVER foresaw was their landslide defeat just a month after this law took effect.
You'd think they learned their lesson, but I doubt it.
I just hope Dubya doesn't do something stupid like supporting renewal and giving them "cover."
Dubya could easily say that America has changed since he made his alleged campaign promise to support renewal - that was BEFORE September 11!
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:02:51 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: harpseal
If GWB wishes to be a one term president then all he has to do is twist some arms to get the so called AWB extended. The critical date ia 14 September 2004. And I question what one may mean by the word "extension". The same Bill, for another ten years, or the same Bill, with new guns added, for another ten years.
You can bet there will be a HUGE push to add many guns, of which will be all .50 caliber rifles and the new S&W 500 .50 cal magnum reveolver that some idiots are already piping up about.
To: 45Auto
The Violence Policy Center, which supports gun control, recently released a report that said .50-caliber sniper rifles remain legal, even though terrorists could use them to fire at a jetliner thousands of yards away, potentially piercing the craft's metal skin and knocking it from the sky. Terrorists could also use jetliners as a terrorist weapon to attack buildings full of people, potentially piercing and collapsing the buildings, and incinerating or crushing thousands of people in the process.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:04:16 PM PST
by
meadsjn
To: harpseal
"If GWB wishes to be a one term president then all he has to do is twist some arms to get the so called AWB extended. The critical date ia 14 September 2004."
If he extends it, I will vote for his democratic opposition just to send a message. Then I will kick myself.
To: Dan from Michigan
"He signs it, and he's a one-termer. That simple."You're absolutely right!
I could never vote for Bush's opponent, but I COULD simply stay home, as would 100,000 or so of my closest friends, eh Dan?
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:05:08 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Then he can kiss Michigan, New Hampshire, Florida, Penn, Minnesota, West VA, Tennesee, Missouri, and possibly Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina goodbye.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:05:09 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
(Every man dies. Not every man really lives.)
To: toothless
It expires in October (6th?) '04. 10 years to the day from when it was enacted.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:07:12 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Dan from Michigan
The hope is to pursuade the House of Reps. not to renew this provision; that way, Pres. Bush won't have to give himself a sharp pain in the....The damn Senate might vote to extend and make permanent, but there is hope that the House won't buy it....But I think the enemies of freedom are going to trot out all the propaganda they can to gain sympathy from the moronic public over this. The big worry is that guys like Chuck the Schmuck Schumer will try to amend the damn thing to include further infringements on the 2nd.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:08:33 PM PST
by
45Auto
To: MrB
public reaction to several high-profile shootings involving semiautomatic weapons tinfoil hat firmly in place There will be another high-profile shooting in the months before the vote.
Just click the cover to see how a "Super Columbine" could lead to a total ban on semi-automatics in a week, at least in a novel! Chapter 1 begins with an "assault rifle massacre" in a packed stadium, and then everything gets crazy.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:11:19 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: 45Auto
That's "persuade"..
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:12:16 PM PST
by
45Auto
(The dumbing-down of America is pernicious)
To: 45Auto
bump for later...
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:13:27 PM PST
by
dbwz
To: Dan from Michigan
"Then he can kiss Michigan, New Hampshire, Florida, Penn, Minnesota, West VA, Tennesee, Missouri, and possibly Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina goodbye."And don't forget Texas! Bush COULD lose Texas if he supports more gun laws like his daddy did!
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:14:56 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: 45Auto
The big worry is that guys like Chuck the Schmuck Schumer will try to amend the damn thing to include further infringements on the 2nd.
No kidding. But Bush has the Veto. Of course he would have to rent a spine to use it, but I can lend him mine for $199.95 per day. There's no way the Dems can wrassle up 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate.
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posted on
02/24/2003 1:15:03 PM PST
by
jjm2111
To: 45Auto
the weapons of choice for many drug dealers, gang members and terrorists --Really? Most of the AR's, SKS's, and AK's I see are at the local rifle range.
To: 45Auto
Sarah Brady, you ignorant putz. If you weren't such an opportunist leftist puppet you'd be ranting about twenty-two revolvers -- That's the evil weapon which was used on your husband.
To: Travis McGee
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