Assault weapons to be legal
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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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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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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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CHICAGO - The decade-long U.S. ban on assault weapons expired Monday...
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Teenagers arming themselves with weapons to protect themselves against attacks in the street
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WASHINGTON Sept. 13, 2004 - Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday accused President Bush of ducking his responsibility to protect the country from crime and terrorism by allowing a national assault weapons ban to expire.
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The expiration of the assault weapons ban was a depressing but potentially valuable lesson in the rancid politics of gun control. Honest debate on gun policy is impossible because of the cynical
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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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New measures to fight crime and drugs are expected to be at the heart of the Queen&#39;s Speech on Tuesday. The creation of national ID cards, new measures against &quot;yobs&quot; and drug tests for minor offenders are set to feature.
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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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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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ST. LOUIS  - 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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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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The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade, spurred by the Virginia Tech campus killings and buttressed by National Rifle Association help.
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Modern police departments have been deploying modified paintball guns like the ones provided by Pepperball, Inc. to help police officers balance the American people's First Amendment right of free assembly against the demands of politicians. The "less than lethal" designation of these weapons was highlighted recently by the shooting death of Victoria Snelgrove, a baseball fan, by Pepperball equipped police near Fenway Park in Boston.
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Head teachers in England could gain powers to tackle pupils carrying weapons, under government plans.
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With its battle to kill the decade-long U.S. ban on assault weapons won, the National Rifle Association is now setting its sights on the Nov. 2 presidential and congressional elections.