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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Gun Control in the wake of a Massacre
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 20:05:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 20:05:31 1984
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Actually:
	Except in California, where there are State laws restricting the
possession of fully automatic weapons (maybe there is another State I
am not aware of), there is nothing in federal law to prevent you from
paying your $200 registration fee to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, and then purchasing a fully automatic weapon from a Class III
Firearms dealer.
	Since the masacre in question was in San Diego, California, if the
weapon used was indeed the fully automatic UZI submachine gun versus the
California legal semiautomatic version, then it would have been illegal.
(The semi-auto UZI has a 16" barrel, the full-auto barrel is just a couple
inches long)
{ucbvax|decvax|ihnp4}!sun!sunny(Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)