I
wonder who told the Boston Herald Massachusetts was the only state with an
"assault weapon" ban when it's just the only state that seemingly tied its own
ban to the feds and thus felt obligated to revise its law when the federal law
appeared likely to sunset?
-----Original Message-----Pols, activists blast feds on coming lapse of gun law
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By Casey Ross
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
State lawmakers joined with grassroots activists yesterday to blast Congress and the Bush administration for playing politics with legislation aimed at keeping cop-killer assault weapons out of city neighborhoods.
``These weapons have no place in civil society,'' said state Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick). ``They have one mission and one mission only - to kill human beings, to kill them rapidly and to kill them in large numbers.''
A federal ban signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994 is due to expire Sept. 13 unless Congress and President Bush [related, bio] act to extend it. With lawmakers on summer break, that leaves them with just five legislative days to prevent the ban from expiring.
Supporters of the ban orchestrated a one-two publicity punch this week when President Clinton spoke of the legislation during a Monday speech, and then activists and lawmakers gathered yesterday to publicly decry Washington's lack of action.
Members of the Million Mom March, an organization created to help end gun violence, stood together outside the Old North Church and warned that Uzis and AK-47s could soon be commonplace on city streets.
Massachusetts is the only state in the nation that has already enacted its own ban to prevent assault weapons from being purchased in local gun shops.
The Million Moms, who have been traveling across the country to build support for the ban, punctuated their point yesterday with a demonstration in the street where Paul Revere once rode to warn of the arrival of British troops.
``The assault weapons are coming, the assault weapons are coming,'' a man on horseback yelled to the crowd.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=37524
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