On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:31:08PM -0700, C. D. Tavares wrote: > 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."
I seem to recall the M1 Carbine also being on that list. I see four M1s on the list, and two Mini-14s. So I should retract my comment earlier about their definition being that from the statute. > So much for protection from gun banners -- I can get longer > lasting protection from a bar of Dial soap. Wasn't there something else that was supposed to give us protection against gun banners? Oh, yeah, I remember now. I think it's called the second amendment, or something like that. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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