US presidential battle kills off assault weapons ban
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A ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the United States ends on Monday having been fatally wounded in the crossfire of the US presidential election.
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BOISE, Idaho - The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s can now be legally bought - a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.    The 1994 ban, signed by President Clinton, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons...
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BAGHDAD -- US military deaths in the Iraq campaign passed the 1,000 mark yesterday, with more than 800 of them during the stubborn insurgency that flared after the Americans brought down Saddam Hussein and President Bush declared major combat over.
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The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital, brushing aside pleas from city officials concerned about a surge in violence and more heavily armed criminals.
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Last night&#39;s sunset of a federal ban on some 19 military-style assault weapons is yet another sad commentary on the political powerlock that the National Rifle Association has over members of Congress.
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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District's gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city's leaders as a historic violation of home rule.
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Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush yesterday of being beholden to the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby because he hasn&#39;t pressed Congress to extend the 10-year-old assault-weapons ban that expires Monday.
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The National Rifle Association, a powerful US lobbying group supporting the right to own firearms, endorsed Republican George W. Bush for president in the November 2 presidential election.
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Democrat John Kerry rebuked  President Bush on Monday for letting a ban on assault weapons  expire and said his Republican rival paid for tax cuts by  taking police off the streets and slashing anti-drug programs.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, seeking to cut George W. Bush's edge on security issues, branded him a puppet of the powerful US gun lobby who allowed a decade-old ban on assault weapons to lapse.
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WASHINGTON -- Hours before it once again became legal to sell military-style assault weapons, Democratic Sen. John Kerry sharply criticized President Bush on Monday for supporting an extension of the 10-year gun ban while doing little to make it happen.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years after it was born out of the carnage of three California mass shootings, the federal assault weapons ban is fading out of existence Monday.    While manufacturers look for a boom in business as people buy up previously banned weapons like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s, police chiefs warn of an upsurge in crime...
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The US military says it killed six militants who had fired a rocket on an attack helicopter in southern Afghanistan. Officials say after insurgents in Zabul province fired on the helicopter, a US gunship returned fire, killing the six rebels.
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The United States lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, Haitian officials said, while U.N. peacekeepers and an ill-equipped police force faced sporadic violence on Tuesday in strongholds belonging to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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BOISE, Idaho - The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means firearms like TEC-9s can now be legally bought - a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased.    The 1994 ban, signed by President Clinton, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons...
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Despite popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday.
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Two US soldiers were killed in a firefight with insurgents Monday, while an Afghan vice president escaped a bomb attack on his convoy in the latest assassination attempt on a political leader ahead of key elections.