Assault weapons ban due to expire Monday
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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.
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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
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BELFAST -- The Irish Republican Army declared yesterday it is willing to get rid of all its weapons this month -- but only if Protestants drop their demands for photographic proof.
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(Corrects date ban goes into effect to June 15 from July 1 in paragraph 7 after New Mexicoâs senate office revised date)
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Comment is free: Hilary Benn: One person a minute dies from a gunshot. Now we have a chance to reduce weapons trading.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized part of a southern  Peruvian town in demanding the president resign said it will  hand over its weapons on Monday.
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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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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to kill 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.
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The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation&#39;s capital, brushing aside pleas from city officials concerned about a surge in violence and more heavily armed criminals.
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With only a few days to go before a ban on Internet taxes expires, the Senate approved a measure to extend the prohibition for seven years. The House approved a similar bill last week, but the differences must now be ironed out in a final bill submitted to President Bush before the current law runs out on November 1.
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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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Amid recent political maneuvering is a situation little noticed by the public: The 1994 federal arms ban did not prevent many assault weapons from reaching the streets.
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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 expiration of the 10-year-old ban on 19 types of assault weapons Monday drove up business at some gun stores and set off sparks in the political world.
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A deadline for thousands of illegal workers to leave Malaysia or face arrest expires on Monday.
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The city of Washington is asking the US Supreme Court to uphold a three-decade ban on handguns in the nation&#39;s capital in a case that could have ramifications on gun control laws in other states.
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AFFTON - Sen. John Kerry accused President George W. Bush yesterday of playing into the hands of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups and putting Americans at risk if he allows the nationâs 10-year-old assault-weapons ban to expire Monday.