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	Assault rifle
		Assault rifle is a specific military term for various types of fully-automatic and select-fire (multi-shot burst) intermediate-power long guns.
		As a massed military weapon, assault rifles share common features: light weight, hand grips positioned for good instinctive pointing (for unaimed "intuitive" fire), bayonet lugs (to provide lethality without ammunition), selectable fire rates, high reliability, large magazines, and simplified operation.
		The concept of an assault rifle was born during the 1930s in several armies needing an infantry weapon with an intermediate-power ammunition, heavier than submachine guns (too weak and with a too short trajectory) and lighter than that for long rifles (uncomfortable to shoot, and difficult to control on full-automatic).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/as/Assault_rifle.html (1181 words)

	Brady Campaign - Assault Weapons Ban
		Assault weapon maker Olympic Arms continued the suit, which was dismissed by a federal judge in March of 2000.
		While semi-automatic hunting rifles are designed to be fired from the shoulder and depend upon the accuracy of a precisely aimed projectile, semi-automatic assault weapons are designed to maximize lethal effects through a rapid rate of fire.
		Assault weapons are designed to be spray-fired from the hip, and because of their design, a shooter can maintain control of the weapon even while firing many rounds in rapid succession.
	www.bradycampaign.org /facts/faqs/?page=awb (3387 words)

	Assault rifle Summary
		Assault rifle is a term describing a type of automatic rifle generally defined as a selective fire rifle or carbine, chambering intermediate-powered ammunition.
		Assault rifles are the standard small arms in most modern armies, having largely replaced or supplemented larger, more powerful rifles ('battle rifles') such as the WWII-era M1 Garand and Tokarev SVT.
		The first true assault rifle was probably the Italian-made Cei-Rigotti, which was developed in the 1890s and finished around 1900, at the beginning of the 20th century; it never entered military service, however.
	www.bookrags.com /Assault_rifle (3492 words)

	State Assault Rifle Bans and Militia Clauses
		The strongest argument for judicial adoption of a "dormant" militia clause, with respect to assault rifles, is the requirement that citizens of all states have access to militia-type weapons in the event of a national emergency where the unorganized militia is called to service.
		A state assault rifle ban for the purpose of reducing crime within the state is a legitimate exercise of the state's police powers, and there is some basis for believing an assault rifle ban would reduce criminal homicides.
		An assault rifle, as popularly understood, is used in this Note to describe a semiautomatic rifle that is capable of accepting a high-capacity magazine and resembles in appearance a military weapon.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/Fafarman1.html (6570 words)

	The information resource for the expiration of the 1994 semiauto ban!
		An assault rifle has a mechanism that allows for fully automatic firing, so that as long as the trigger is squeezed, cartridges will continue to be fired in rapid succession until the supply of ammunition is exhausted.
		The term ''rifle'' means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
		The term ''semiautomatic rifle'' means any repeating rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.
	www.awbansunset.com /whatis.html (2236 words)

	Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition, David B. Kopel, Independence Institute
		In 1990, "assault weapons" comprised thirty-six of the 963 firearms involved in homicide or aggravated assault and analyzed by police crime laboratories, according to a report prepared by the California Department of Justice, and based on data from police firearms laboratories throughout the state.
		Official statistics prove that so-called "assault weapons" are rarely involved in criminal activity, and hence the use of "assault weapons" in crime is insufficiently demonstrated to pass the rational basis test.
		Banning "assault weapons" has been justified on the basis that these weapons are better suited for personal protection than they are for recreation.
	www.davekopel.org /2A/LawRev/rational.htm (13998 words)

	Assault Rifle Legislation: Unwise and Unconstitutional
		In House "assault weapon" debate, Ackerman actually asked whether hunters needed "a Mac 10 machine gun with 30 round banana clips of armor piercing bullets to bag a quail?"[105] Both armor piercing bullets and machineguns are heavily regulated and are not the subject of current "assault weapon" legislation.
		Proponents of current "assault rifle" legislation have argued that even if one recognizes an individual right to bear arms, military-style semiautomatics are not the type of arms that individuals have a right to bear.
		Military-style semiautomatic rifles are personal sidearms, and not "heavy ordnance" used exclusively by the military.[197] These so-called "assault rifles" assess [Page 171] the capability of semiautomatic fire, and they remain functionally indistinguishable from more traditionally-styled semiautomatic sidearms.[198] The military does not exclusively use either modern or traditionally-styled semiautomatics.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/EMorgan1.html (7607 words)

	The information resource for the expiration of the 1994 semiauto ban!
		The bill seeking to impose a ban on assault weapons was killed for this year's session Thursday by a unanimous vote of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee after the sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ethan Strimling of Portland, acknowledged flaws with the proposal.
		But the odds she faces to pass the weapons ban in the current Congress are probably steeper than they were in 1993, when the Senate narrowly approved the ban, or last March, when it passed 52-47 before dying in the body.
		While the so-called "assault weapons" ban was never really at the forefront of the presidential race, we don't need to be reminded of the promise anti-gun forces made that voters would retaliate en masse against President Bush for not actively pushing for the ban's renewal, resulting in a decisive defeat.
	www.awbansunset.com (10442 words)

	VPC - Officer Down - Section One
		Approximately one in 10 of the 74 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 1995 was slain with a banned assault weapon.
		In spite of assault rifle bans, bans on high capacity magazines, the rantings of the anti-gun media and the rifle's innate political incorrectness, the Kalashnikov [AK-47], in various forms and guises, has flourished.
		The fact that from 1998 through 2001 one in five law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty was killed with an assault weapon indicates that the ban in its current form is inadequate to protect police and the public from the hazards presented by assault weapons.
	www.vpc.org /studies/officeone.htm (1133 words)

	Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) was a provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a federal law of the United States that included a prohibition on the sale of semi-automatic "assault weapons" manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment.
		The new law defined and applied the term assault weapon to semi-automatic firearms that were predominantly derived from assault rifles or fully-automatic pistols.
		During the period of the federal ban, ATF would issue rulings as to whether attachment of a given muzzle device on a post-ban rifle was permissible because it acted only as a brake, or impermissible because it acted as a flash suppressor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ban_on_assault_rifles (1819 words)

	Senator Dianne Feinstein - Assault Weapons Ban
		Weapons and ammunition clips that were manufactured prior to enactment of this law are not covered by the ban.
		The legislation explicitly exempts from the ban 670 specific hunting rifles and other recreational guns.
		In 1996, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the assault weapons ban.
	feinstein.senate.gov /assault_weapons_ban.html (274 words)

	Assault-style weapon bans have received mixed reviews
		Bans imposed by states and cities on assault weapons like the one Indianapolis cop killer Kenneth C. Anderson used have drawn mixed reviews from crime experts and police.
		Supporters insist the bans used in a handful of states and towns have saved lives, but some criminologists and gun-rights advocates say there is scant evidence the laws reduce violence.
		SKS rifles alone were used in 11,591 crimes from 1995 to 2000, the latest year statistics are available from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
	www.indystar.com /articles/0/172427-8950-010.html (736 words)

	Assault Weapons Support
		Assault weapons are the weapons of choice for criminals -- from gang members to grievance killers and potential terrorists.
		In 1994, assault weapons accounted for 41% of police gun deaths where the make and model of the weapon were known.
		Bans an additional group of these assault weapons that have been banned by characteristic for 8 years.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/assault-weapons-support.htm (826 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Kerry owns assault rifle
		Meehan said Thursday he was unable to ask the senator about the rifle because of Kerry's hoarse voice, and the Times reports he did not respond to further inquiries.
		Kerry is a hunter who voiced support for the recently expired assault-weapons ban, and often tells citizens he's never met anyone who wanted to use an AK-47 to shoot a deer.
		Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, told the Times the comment in Outdoor Life made Kerry's support of the ban disingenuous.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40635 (257 words)

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		The Day He Took Office, Assault Rifle, Imports Went Through The Roof!
		As Wang Jun Jun Flooded America W/ 'Banned' Assault Rifles!
		He has allowed AK-47s and SKS assault rifles, in
	www.powmadeak47.com /ak47/car.html (118 words)

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