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- NATION, Page 29American NotesGUNSShooting Holes In a Ban
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- The Bush Administration's July 1989 ban on the importation
- of rapid-fire assault-style rifles always seemed ineffectual.
- It mainly protected domestic gunmakers from competition. Last
- week the ban seemed still more illusory. The Bureau of Alcohol,
- Tobacco and Firearms announced that it could not prevent
- imports of guns like AK-47s if they were redesigned to remove
- military-style features such as large-capacity magazines, flash
- suppressors and bayonets. Such changes may make the rifles less
- deadly, but buyers can turn the guns into people killers with
- easy-to-get kits. Manufacturers, says Josh Sugarmann, director
- of the Firearms Policy Project, have "left the guts of an
- assault weapon." Imports of modified rifles have not begun, but
- one company plans to start soon.
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