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New laws on assault weapons the semi-automatic firearms that anti-violence advocates deplore and on magazine-size would be more harmful to the gun industry.
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Take, for example, the ban on semi-automatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons proposed by Feinstein, a California Democrat, and backed by Obama.
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Automatic fire capability, not an "evil" look, is what makes assault weapons dangerous -- and automatic firearms have been banned for eighty years.
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The wildlife wardens are often outgunned by the poachers, whose growing use of automatic firearms and other weapons has been documented by conservation groups.
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The 62-year-old had been released from a federal prison three weeks earlier after pleading guilty earlier to possessing illegal firearms, including five fully automatic firearms.
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He says the group plans to file a lawsuit this week to overturn the gun law, which also banned sales of some formerly legal semi-automatic firearms and requires federal background checks for private gun sales.
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Feinstein's measure would stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacture of more than 100 specialty firearms and certain semi-automatic rifles, as well as limiting magazines to 10 rounds or less, she said.
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Obama cited the major provisions of his package of gun proposals, including background checks on all firearms sales, a ban on semi-automatic weapons that mimic military weapons, and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
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The sources said Shahzad bought the semi-automatic Sub 2000 rifle less than two months ago at Valley Firearms in Shelton.
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In fact, the vast majority of all U.S. firearms, both handguns and rifles, are semi-automatic.
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But Obama seemed to suggest he would support a renewal of an assault weapons ban that would prevent people from buying firearms like the military-style Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle, which gunned down the children in Newtown.
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