Reply #3: sorry to say this but:

[G_j]

breaking news:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5946127/

Congress won’t vote on assault weapons ban
10-year federal ban set
to expire Monday

The Associated Press

Updated: 7:52 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2004WASHINGTON - Congress will not vote on an assault weapons ban due to expire Monday, Republican leaders said Wednesday, rejecting a last-ditch effort by supporters to renew it.

“I think the will of the American people is consistent with letting it expire, so it will expire,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., told reporters.

The 10-year ban, signed by President Clinton in 1994, outlawed 19 types of military-style assault weapons. A clause directed that the ban expire unless Congress specifically reauthorized it.

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