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Old 05-09-2008, 12:32 AM
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Rendell, Nutter Press for Renewal of Assault Weapons Ban


Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell are asking the Pennsylvania delegation on Capitol Hill to join in the drive for a new assault weapons ban in light of Sgt. Liczbinski's murder.

Nutter said assault weapons have no legitimate purpose:

"Those weapons have one goal, and one means of use in mind. They are to maim, and destroy, human beings, and to do it as quickly and as dangerously in a devastating fashion as possible."

Get these weapons off the street. Get those large-capacity magazines off the street. As the mayor said, the only people who should have weapons like this is the police and the military. We should outgun the criminals, not vice versa."

Police commissioner Charles Ramsey became incensed at the news conference when a reporter asked if, in fact, the weapon that killed Sgt. Liczbinski might not be covered by an assault weapon ban:


"Let me just say this -- if it's not an assault weapon by definition, then add it to the frickin' list. Add it to the frickin' list! We don't need it."


In their letter to the delegation, Nutter and Rendell said that "the real test of how much we care about protecting our officers is whether we can... pass laws that actually protect our police officers."
Newsflash for our leaders:

THIS SKS WAS NOT PURCHASED IN PA. CRIMINALS DO NOT GO DOWN TO THE LOCAL GUN SHOP AND GO THROUGH THE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF BUYING A FIREARM.

With that said....have a good evening Killadelphia!
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Newsflash for our leaders:

THIS SKS WAS NOT PURCHASED IN PA. CRIMINALS DO NOT GO DOWN TO THE LOCAL GUN SHOP AND GO THROUGH THE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF BUYING A FIREARM.

With that said....have a good evening Killadelphia!
They're talking about the national assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. The news said they're lobbying to get congress to renew it, and someone pointed out this weapon wasn't on that list anyway, so that's when he frickin said frickin.
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I have to know..... how small is it?
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Newsflash for our leaders:

THIS SKS WAS NOT PURCHASED IN PA. CRIMINALS DO NOT GO DOWN TO THE LOCAL GUN SHOP AND GO THROUGH THE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF BUYING A FIREARM.

With that said....have a good evening Killadelphia!
Yes, but it was legally purchased somewhere else. Just as a similar gun legally purchased in PA can be used to kill someone in Virginia -- and a killing is a killing is a killing, no matter where it occurs. There are no metal detectors at state borders.
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Yes, but it was legally purchased somewhere else.
Do we know this to be a fact?
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Not only that, but "legally purchased" can have more than one meaning? Did the shooter himself purchase the weapon legally, or was it a resale situation tracing back to someone who originally purchased it legally?
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edit - it was traced to a sale in NC.

I would bet most machine guns held by criminals come in through the black market.
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Per Cerberus on another thread, "the SKS that was used in the robbery & murder was purchased in NC back in 1992."
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They're talking about the national assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. The news said they're lobbying to get congress to renew it, and someone pointed out this weapon wasn't on that list anyway, so that's when he frickin said frickin.
I know...I watched the newscast...

SKS's are classified as curios & relics by the ATF...NOT ASSAULT RIFLES!
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