Assault Weapons Ban Miscellany
This time, at Newsday:
If you think streets awash in Uzis, AK-47s and other military-style firearms are just what the country needs, then you’ll love the game that President George W. Bush and House Republican leaders are playing. They’re about to let the 1994 assault-weapons ban slip into the dustbin of history without so much as a vote in the House.
The law that prohibits the manufacture or distribution of 19 kinds of semiautomatic weapons will sunset on Sept. 13. It should be extended.
The ban doesn’t affect Uzis, AK-47s and other military-style firearms. Those weapons are machine guns, which are covered under the 1934 National Firearms Act. The ban also doesn’t prohibits the manufacture or distribution of 19 kinds of semiautomatic weapons. It limits the number of features that any semiautomatic weapon can have to one.
However, this article is right about one thing, Bush is playing politics.
