Friday, September 10, 2004

Assault weapons ban to be lifted?

Another American nightmare.

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) said on Friday President Bush (news - web sites)'s failure to fight for a renewal of a ban on assault weapons would make it easier for groups like al Qaeda to get the lethal guns.


Campaigning in Missouri, where he trails Bush in opinion polls less than two months before the Nov. 2 election, Kerry said as a hunter and outdoorsman he would never try to change the Second Amendment to the Constitution giving Americans the right to bear arms.

Under a 10-year ban enacted in 1994, weapons such as AK-47s, TEC-9s, and Uzis were outlawed, as were high capacity ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. That law expires on Monday and Congress does not plan to extend it.


Dianne Feinstein last night on Newshour:

Now, let me tell you what I think is going to happen: There is a shipment of AK-47s that was picked up in Italy by customs that was on its way from a port in Romania of 8,000 AK-47s due to go into the port of New York into a gun store in Georgia. It was a $7 million shipment. You can multiply that tenfold. And you will see these weapons begin to spring up all over and the big clips which add the firepower and the ability to kill substantial numbers of people before you can get to the gunner to disarm him.


Does America really want these kinds of weapons coming into our unsecured ports?