At 7:04 PM -0700 10/9/03, Ron Moore wrote: >> The 26-page study reveals that at least 41 of the 211 law enforcement >>officers slain in the line of duty between January 1, 1998, and >>December 31, 2001, were killed with assault weapon >> > > I wonder how they are defining "assault weapon". On their web page they >identify the Ruger Mini-14 as a "rule cheater" assault rifle even though >it has been on the market for decades and it is built like nearly every >other semi-auto hunting or plinking rifle that Americans have been buying >for a century now.
More to the point, the Ruger Mini-14 is explicitly listed in Appendix A of 18 USC Sec. 922 as NOT an assault weapon. You may remember this Appendix as the highly-touted "list of protected firearms that would never be bannaed." So much for protection from gun banners -- I can get longer lasting protection from a bar of Dial soap. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! Privilege just means "private law." Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it, and those that make it. --TERRY PRATCHETT
