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Sylad
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Username: Sylad
Post Number: 776
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 12:09 pm: |     |
Check out this link:
http://www.drudgereport.com/dncg.htm
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE SEPT 07, 2004 11:46:05 ET XXXXX
KERRY COSPONSORED BILL BANNING GUN HE WAVES
Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry was seen this weekend touting a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law!
Kerry co-sponsored S. 1431 last year (“The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003) which would have banned a "semiautomatic shotgun that has a pistol grip.”
Kerry was presented with the gun during a Labor Day stop in Racine, West Virginia.
"I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me," Kerry told a cheering crowd as he held up the device.
Photos show Kerry's hand resting on the semiautomatic shotgun's pistol grip.
Kerry's bill would ban millions of semi-automatics, including those with "pistol grips." [Section SEC. 2; (H) (ii)]
Opponents of the bill successfully argued how nearly all guns have "pistol grips," inluding millions of Browning Auto-5 shotguns produced since 1903.
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singlemalt
Citizen
Username: Singlemalt
Post Number: 340
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 12:36 pm: | |
Hmmm. Kerry was presented with that gun and did not go through a background check or file the proper change of ownership on a fire arm. |
jjkatz
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 201
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 1:09 pm: | |
How do you know that? The quoted portion of the article doesn't say anything about that, not that I'd take anything from the Sludge Report at face value anyway.... |
Madden 11
Citizen
Username: Madden_11
Post Number: 174
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 1:46 pm: | |
He's also against tax cuts that greatly enrich him and his family. It's called "placing the public interest above your own selfish interests." |
Face
Real Name
Username: Face
Post Number: 365
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 1:51 pm: | |
Mr. Kerry will not even surpass the 45.7% of the popular vote Michael Dukakis got in 1988.
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Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 76
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 1:55 pm: | |
That's super terrific, Face. Can you please post the results of the World Series, Super Bowl, NCAA Tournament and Kentucky Derby so I can call my bookie? |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 777
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 2:26 pm: | |
Red Sox
Eagles
NCAA Hoops--Duke
Derby is tough, cause we dont know the field, check back in mid april |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 77
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 2:31 pm: | |
Place all those bets now, Sylad, and you're certain to be a multi-millionaire. Perhaps, even a billionaire! |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 778
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 2:40 pm: | |
Just throwing you a bone.
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Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 593
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 4:23 pm: | |
Red Sox? Doesn't create much confidence in you predictions for President Bush winning. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2327
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - 9:38 pm: | |
If you lose on those bets, Sylad, you can always try cattle futures. I've heard you can just read the Wall Street Journal and do very, very well. |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 785
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - 8:26 am: | |
Don't you worry about me or my Red Sox boys.
Focus on your boy Kerry. The probably thinks the Sox are leading the East.
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bobk
Citizen
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 6068
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - 8:42 am: | |
There are pistol grips and then there are pistol grips. It is how you define them. I think the ban concerned weapons such as the M-16 (and its civilian offsprings) that have a true pistol type grip below the receiver. |
thegoodsgt
Real Name
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 591
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - 9:54 am: | |
An assault rifle by most definitions is capable of automatic fire. Automatic weapons (thus assault rifles) have been illegal in the US for a long time, I think since the 1920s or 30s, when the .45 caliber Thompson sub-machinegun and the .30 caliber Browning automatic were available from Sears. The drafters of the assult weapons ban have characterized banned weapons as "assault-style weapons" (note the use of the -styled descriptor), a category which sweeps more broadly than "assault rifle" does. The legislation bans UZIs, MAC-10s, SKSs and other weapons which are not assault rifles at all, whether they can fire auto or not.
The prohibitionist lobby in DC seems to define "assault-style weapons" as scary-looking guns. |
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