At 12:36 PM -0700 7/27/03, Ron Moore wrote: > I just read S1431 that proposes to reauthorize the "ban" on so-called > assault rifles. > > Interestingly enough, Mr. Lautenberg has now included the Ruger Mini-14 > (but not the Mini-30)--one of the most popular sporting rifles around--and > the M1 Carbine--of which there are probably a million in private > hands. Weren't both of these rifles included on the "good rifle" list that > Feinstein got into the 1994 legislation? > Ron Moore
18 USC Section 22 currently specifies: (v)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon. ... (3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to - (A) any of the firearms, or replicas or duplicates of the firearms, specified in Appendix A to this section, as such firearms were manufactured on October 1, 1993; ... No firearm exempted by this subsection may be deleted from Appendix A so long as this subsection is in effect. ... APPENDIX A CENTERFIRE RIFLES - AUTOLOADERS ... Iver Johnson M-1 Carbine Iver Johnson 50th Anniversary M-1 Carbine ... Ruger Mini-14 Autoloading Rifle (w/o folding stock) <http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+522+1++%28%29 AN> Further proof that to gun "control" advocates there is really no such thing as a "good" gun or a "bad gun" -- just a gun which for tactical reasons they won't try to ban TODAY. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians. --HUGH DOWNS (1997) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! If you thought Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy was the poster boy for eminent domain abuse, wait until you meet Claire Gaudiani. An academic and former president of Connecticut College, she justifies her actions in New London as the pursuit of "social justice." She likes to compare what she is doing to the work of Jesus and Martin Luther King. (As Dave Barry would say, we are not making this up.) She is also unapologetic about the use of eminent domain to force people from their homes and businesses. As she puts it, "Anything that's working in our great nation is working because someone left skin on the sidewalk." She is a real-life Ellsworth Toohey. --SCOTT BULLOCK, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
