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The Brady Campaign blames their first crime on the expiration of the assault weapons ban after just three weeks:
One of the nation’s first assault weapons crimes since the sunset of the ban on these weapons apparently occurred here late last week, at a Mobil gas station on South Sycamore Street, just sixteen days after Senator Arlen Specter and Congressional leaders helped the gun lobby kill the ban. An employee at the gas station told police the gun the robber brandished was an Uzi with a large capacity ammunition magazine. “The employee said he knew the weapon from seeing it in magazines and elsewhere before,” a police detective told the Bucks County Courier Times newspaper.
First, Uzis are still regulated under the 1934 National Firearms Act as machine guns. Second, semi-automatic (i.e., not machine guns) versions of the Uzi are banned under a 1989 executive order. If the ban were still in place, it would not have prevented this robbery. Once again, the Brady’s have to lie to make a point for their cause.
Update: Apparently, the Brady Campaign made most of it up. Matt contacted the original reporter and finds the Brady Bunch doing what they do best, misrepresenting the facts.
October 5th, 2004 at 12:51 am
[…] Bradys. And the linkage to the expiration of the “Assault Weapons” ban (AWB) is thoroughly debunked bySay Uncle, who points out that Uzis are regulated under the 1934 NFA, and b […]
October 4th, 2004 at 2:50 pm
Brady campaign lying about assault weapons (not again, still)
Brady campaign lying about assault weapons (not again, still)
October 4th, 2004 at 3:26 pm
Third, anyone who thinks the same robbers couldn’t or wouldn’t have used a different firearm to commit the same robbery, producing the same net results, is not playing with the sharpest Happy Meal in the drawer.
October 4th, 2004 at 3:30 pm
The guy could have used a knife and gotten the same result.
Summary: An all-out gun ban would have not prevented this crime.
October 4th, 2004 at 4:17 pm
Couple of years ago, a crook pulled an Uzi on some cops in Mountain View. The Uzi jammed, as automatic weapons are prone to do if not given close care, and the cops lived. The crook then went up to Frisco where he used an old fashioned revolver to kill a cop.