home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990
/
1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
/
time
/
082889
/
08288900.040
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-09-17
|
1KB
|
19 lines
NATION, Page 15American NotesFIREARMSBring Home A Friend
Having served one's country abroad, each discharged soldier
should have the right to bring home a submachine gun as "small
recompense for the isolation, the boredom and the risk of overseas
duty." So argues the National Rifle Association in a letter to drug
czar William Bennett, who championed the ban on imported
semiautomatic rifles. Bennett, the N.R.A. letter gratuitously
points out, was neither isolated nor at risk during his
draft-vulnerable years at the height of the Viet Nam War but
instead was engaged in "scholarly pursuits" as a graduate student.
Assistant N.R.A. counsel James Warner says he only meant to
describe the life of a soldier to Bennett and explain why bringing
back a semiautomatic weapon "bought in good faith" is so important
to G.I.s. Is Bennett going to answer Warner's letter soon? No, says
Bennett's office. Is he ever going to answer Warner's letter?
"Basically, the answer is no."