Assault weapons ban due to expire Monday
526246
Can you get away with defying public opinion? Sometimes. Sometimes you can even get the political Play of the Week. President Bush says he will sign a bill renewing the assault weapons ban if Congress passes it.
439984
A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
63291
The US military has been ordered to suspend compulsory anthrax vaccination for troops by a federal judge. More than a million US soldiers have been forced to have the jab since 1998, with hundreds punished
58528
Breaking with Republican  lawmakers who oppose gun control and a Hollywood film career  filled with gun play, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has  signed a bill banning .50-caliber BMG rifles, an aide said on  Tuesday.
27941
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.
148796
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...
125580
Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate on Tuesday that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.
272225
NEW YORK - A UN 30-day deadline given to the Sudanese government to disarm Arab militias expires Monday, with little progress expected to be reported.
272979
CAPITOL HILL Despite a warning from the police chief in Washington DC about a &quot;tidal wave&quot; of weapons, the House has voted to lift a ban on handguns in the nation&#39;s capital.
454294
A ban on the manufacture and possession of military-style assault weapons came to an end in the United States with a bitter dispute between political rivals and a debate over its effectiveness.
696448
Sure, the assault-style weapons ban expired this week. But by Friday, many people in bike-crazed Portland were more worried about criminals getting their hands on ballpoint pens.
87666
Washington -- Sen. John Kerry outlined a $5 billion anti-crime package Monday and used the day on which the decade-old federal assault weapons ban expired to again rebuke President Bush for what the Democratic
83667
A ban on US citizens owning military-style assault weapons is about to lapse, 10 years after it was passed.
342221
Despite widespread popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday, the result
277287
A deadline set by militants who have threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
646005
As the federal assault-weapons ban expired Monday, Democratic nominee John Kerry assured it will live as an issue in the presidential campaign by lambasting President
195958
Spurred by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the Democratic-led House of Representatives is expected to approve a bill to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, lawmakers said on Tuesday.