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A measure to restrict new sales of a high-powered, long-range rifle that has been portrayed as an ideal sniper weapon cleared the Assembly with ease yesterday. Meanwhile, lawmakers passed a flurry of other bills, including a measure allowing illegal immigrants to earn driver's licenses – similar to a bill vetoed by Gov. Gray Davis last year. Other measures approved seek to rein in spiraling costs in the workers' compensation system, establish universal health care for all Californians and grant amnesty to owners of ferrets, which are currently illegal pets in the state. Both the Assembly and Senate were rushing to...

Chief William J. Bratton Los Angeles Police Department 150 North Los Angeles Street Re: LAPD 82A Rifle, Serial No. 1186 Point of Contact: Jim Moody 213 485 4061 Dear Chief Bratton, I, a U.S. citizen, own Barrett Firearms Mfg. Inc., and for 20 years I have built .50 caliber rifles for my fellow citizens, for their Law Enforcement departments and for their nation's armed forces. You may be aware of the latest negative misinformation campaign from a Washington based anti-gun group, the Violence Policy Center. The VPC has, for three or so years, been unsuccessful in Washington, D.C. trying to...