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Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction. As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semiautomatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun...

Anti-weapon campaign runs on fiction By JOE WALDRON AND DAVE WORKMAN GUEST COLUMNISTS Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction. As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine...

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to...Sink the Pink! The "Halt the Assault Tour" is coming to a town near you this summer! The Halt the Assault tour will be on the road in their pink RV throughout the summer as they take their fact-free message of the joys of gungrabbing and state submission directly to the voters. At each stop they will urge President Bush and our spaghetti-spined Congress to save the assault weapons ban, each time exploiting tragic deaths in order to steal our freedoms. Can we make sure that Freepers greet them at every stop? Their schedule appears...

Save the Assault Weapons Ban Help Us Save the Assault Weapons Ban before it expires on September 13, 2004 Our Goal Tour Blog News The "Halt the Assault Tour" is coming to a town near you this summer! The Halt the Assault tour will be on the road in our pink RV throughout the summer as we take our message to save the assault weapons ban directly to the voters. At each stop we will urge President Bush and Congress to save the assault weapons ban. Notes from the Road... The Big Pink Rig... off to save the country...

Renewing the assault weapons ban ill-conceived An organization called the Million Mom March held a rally in Washington on Mother's Day to urge a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban. If you must know, the turnout was about 997,500 short. But the advocates are not easily discouraged. Afterward, they launched a vehicle called the Big Pink Rig on a "Halt the Assault Tour." The bus will crisscross the nation between now and September, when the ban is scheduled to expire. The 1994 law was a monument to President Bill Clinton's distinctive political genius--which generally involved tiny symbolic changes that...

Morning Editor (CNSNews.com) - Gun control activists have launched a coast-to-coast tour intended to generate support for an "assault weapons" ban that is scheduled to expire in September -- unless Congress passes an extension of the ban. The Million Mom March's "Big Pink Rig" (a pink recreational vehicle) rolled into Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, motivating people on both sides of the gun issue to speak up. While gun control activists want to extend the ban on certain semi-automatic weapons, Second Amendment supporters want to clear up what they call "blatant hype and deliberate misinformation" about those guns. Steve Canale, president...

Gun Ban Lobby Aims for Wrong Target; Brady Moms Should Push for Controlling Criminals, Not Law-Abiding Gun Owners 5/18/2004 4:29:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Adams of Virginia Shooting Sports Association, 804-382-9501 or http://www.myvssa.org RICHMOND, May 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the Million Mom March pink RV rolls into Richmond to push for re-authorization of the Clinton Gun Ban, the Virginia Shooting Sports Association (VSSA), the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association, urged Congress to let the ban expire as scheduled on September 13th. Steve Canale, President of the VSSA said, "Sadly, Mayor McCollum is following...

REVIEW & OUTLOOK Here's more evidence that a million ain't what it used to be. On Sunday the Million Mom March ended up attracting between 2,000 and 3,000 women to the West Lawn of the Capitol. Though organizers tried to put a brave face on the paltry turnout, it was quite a comedown from Mother's Day four years ago, when the same event attracted hundreds of thousands and was cheered on from the Clinton White House. The ostensible purpose of this year's march was to kick off a campaign to secure bipartisan Congressional support for the extension of the federal...

I attended the Second Amendment Sisters SAFER rally yesterday, and also checked out the "Million" Moron Mom rally. They had about 2000 people, we had about 200. Enjoy the photos and check out Kristinn's after-action report thread here: Second Amendment Sisters SAFER Rally, After Action Report 5/09/04 The "Million Mom March" Ahh, irony. The "American Sheep" shirt with the "FOLLOW" slogan... the Kerry for President sticker... make special note of this "gun free" sticker. A friend of mine hoping for a happy September. Let's hope this is one promise the President WON'T keep! This guy gave me a free "Million...

Mother’s Day on the Mall Gunning for gun-free citizens. By Daniel J. Flynn The Million Mom March took place on Sunday. Roughly 999,000 moms decided to stay home. The marchers who did show up, though, had a lot to say. "I don't think guns should be legal," declared Joan Davis, who traveled to the Capitol from Manhattan. "I don't think the average person should have a gun." "Ideally, I guess I would like to see a total ban on guns," held Bonnie Rock of suburban D.C. "But in reality, I would be satisfied with getting rid of the assault weapons...

(CNSNews.com) - It wasn't a "Million Mom March" -- it was a "thousand gang limp," said one Second Amendment supporter, describing Sunday's anti-gun march in Washington. The Washington Post, which ran the story on page B-1, said "thousands" of people, mostly women, marched to "end gun violence" on Sunday. The newspaper described the rally as "the largest gun-control demonstration in four years," then went on to say, "The rally lacked star power, and certainly the numbers, of the first Million Mom March in 2000, when hundreds of thousands of women flooded the Mall on Mother's Day." The Washington Post said...

Gun Control Rally Fails to Draw Large Crowd All Things Considered audio May 9, 2004 A crowd in the hundreds gathers for the Million Moms March on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. The turnout was far smaller than the tens of thousands who showed up for the first Million Moms March, four years ago. Organizers downplayed the small size of the crowd -- but they acknowledged these are tough times for gun control. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

C-Span2 was covering yesterday's MMM ralley, this morning. Turnout was pathetic, speakers were typical. Jesse Jackson took the stage to close out the presentation and to begin the march. He told the crowd that just last week we had intercepted 7500 AK47s off the coast of Vermont. Fascinating...

Moms Unleash Their Anguish, Anger Thousands March to End Gun Violence, Renew Assault Weapons Ban By Eric Rich and Theola Labbé Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 10, 2004; Page B01 Several thousand people, most of them women, gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol yesterday for the largest gun-control demonstration in four years, a loud and calculated effort aimed at forcing President Bush to renew the soon-to-expire federal ban on assault weapons. The rally lacked the star power, and certainly the numbers, of the first Million Mom March in 2000, when hundreds of thousands of women flooded...

Gun control supporters hold rally in D.C. By KATA KERTESZ The Associated Press 5/9/2004, 6:29 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Nick Wilcox wore a button with a picture of his late daughter and spoke of the satisfaction of joining other gun-control advocates Sunday at a rally to urge renewal of a federal ban on assault weapons. "It's always gratifying to be with kindred spirits, and that's what this is," said Wilcox, whose 19-year-old daughter, Laura, was one of two workers at a mental health department office in California shot to death in 2001 by a patient. The assailant used a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control supporters marched through Washington, D.C. on Sunday demanding that President Bush extend a federal ban on the sale of military-style assault rifles. Several thousand protesters, organized by the same group that put together the Million Mom March in 2000, walked from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument chanting "Halt the assault." At the head of the march, protesters held a banner depicting an AK-47 assault rifle, saying the president would be to blame for more violence unless he fulfilled a previous promise to sign an extension of the 1994 ban before it expires in...

Million Mom March 2004: Reflections and New Commitments 5/6/2004 Feature Story by Dick Dahl Four years ago, Laurel Redden couldn't have said who her elected representatives were. A middle-class mother of two from Salem, NH, married for 15 years, Redden was outraged by TV reports of senseless gun violence, but felt powerless to do anything about it. She voted, usually Democratic, but never wrote a letter to an office holder or a newspaper. But then she heard about New Jerseyite Donna Dees-Thomases' ambitious plan to gather one million mothers on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the gun violence...

CNSNews.com) - The anti-gun Mother's Day rally being organized by the Million Mom March expects to draw about 5,000 people to the nation's capital, according to a permit from the National Park Service. The crowd estimate is significantly lower than the organization's first rally in 2000, when about 150,000 people were expected to attend. The actual number who came to Washington was between 500,000 and 750,000 people, according to press reports at the time. This year's rally, dubbed "Halt the Assault," will serve as the kickoff to a nationwide tour focusing on the so-called "assault weapons" ban, which expires in...

Millions March Again: After Women's Rights Rally In D.C., Gun Control Advocates Plan To Take To The Streets By Maureen Ledden Rossi Found among the mounds of rubble in Kabul after the U.S.-led assault was an al Qaeda manual entitled, "How Can I Train Myself for Jihad," which singles out the United States for its easy availability of firearms. Any al Qaeda member living in the U.S., according to the book, should "obtain an assault weapon legally, preferably AK-47 or variations." "If there ever was a threat report that clearly spelled out the dangers of failing to renew the assault...

Brady Campaign: Assault Weapons Are Headed for America's Neighborhoods, Indeed 4/21/2004 1:40:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March, 202-898-0792 WASHINGTON, April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hundreds, or thousands, of assault weapons headed to American neighborhoods? Try hundreds of thousands. "Press reports say a shipment of deadly assault weapons bound for Georgia was intercepted in Italy yesterday. That's terrible," said Michael Barnes, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March. "But unless President Bush acts, come Sept....