Assault Weapons A Setback For The Nra
Not yet. It was a measure of the NRA’s lobbying power that so modest a bill, aimed at such obvious targets as assault weapons, barely cleared the Senate on a 50-49 vote. The guns have little legitimate use except in combat and have become the weapons of choice of terrorists, drug dealers and organized crime. Police across the country have broken with the NRA to call for the ban. In poll after poll, by margins of 70 percent or more, the public agrees, especially since the massacre of five children in a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif....