Gonzales Backs Assault Weapons Ban
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate on Tuesday that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Friday President Bush'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.
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White House counsel Alberto Gonzales  won U.S. Senate confirmation on Thursday as the nation's next  attorney general with the second highest number of "no" votes  ever for a successful nominee for the post.
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Barack Obama says the country must do "whatever it takes" to eradicate gun violence but believes in the right to bear arms.
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Monday at midnight, a decade-long federal ban against the sale of certain semi-automatic assault weapons will expire. That is, if Congress doesn&#39;t present a bill for President Bush to sign authorizing an extension of the law.
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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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Gun manufacturers are gearing up for the scheduled expiration next week of a 10-year-old federal ban on assault weapons, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales is the president's choice for attorney general, sources say.
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey has accepted President Bush's offer to replace Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, two government sources familiar with the president's selection said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON -- A ban on semiautomatic assault weapons will expire Monday, despite wide popular support and appeals from politicians, gun victims and law enforcement officials, including Seattle police Chief Gil Kerlikowske.
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Two weeks after the Republican leadership in Congress allowed the federal assault weapons ban to expire, the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to repeal the District
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Lawmakers in the Senate warned that the likely demise next week of a 10-year-old federal ban on semi-automatic assault guns will lead to a flood of such weapons on the streets of cities across the United States.
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WASHINGTON Alberto Gonzales&#39; road to confirmation as the first Hispanic US attorney general may run through two controversial places -- Iraq&#39;s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and the death row of Texas.
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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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President Bush on Wednesday nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who helped shape the administration's controversial legal strategy in the war on terror, to be attorney general. He would be the first Hispanic to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Rudy Giuliani, who called for tough gun control as New York's mayor, said Tuesday the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a recent court ruling on personal liberties framed his current outlook defending a right to bear arms.
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The District today formally asked the Supreme Court to uphold the local ban on private ownership of handguns, saying the appeals court decision that overturned the law "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."