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From: keb@tellab1.UUCP (Kenn Burk)
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Subject: Re: Gun Control in the wake of a Massacre
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 13:15:03 EDT
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Although private ownership of Class III weapons is legal in most
states, there are a number in which private ownership is not
legal. I'm not sure of the numbers, but I think there are approximately
a dozen states that ban such ownership; I can add Illinois
to the list of states that ban private ownership.

Uzi does manufacture both a submachine gun and a semiautomatic rifle.
There is another difference between the two in addition to the
barrel-length variation mentioned by Sunny Kirsten, and that difference
lies in the bolt/bolt carrier group. The Uzi semiautomatic rifle,
legal to own wherever other rifles can be legally owned, cannot be
'easily converted' to a 'machine gun' as some buffoon has stated
in this newsgroup; the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
boys insure that such conversion is * not * easy * before permitting
importation into this country.

Since the postings to this subject from the proponents of gun control
have left the impression that ANYbody, ANYwhere can buy ANY damn kind
of a weapon they want, or convert some firearm into a 'machine gun',
I wonder if any of them are willing to actually read the available
legal material on gun ownership and the morass of complicated and
sometimes conflicting laws at federal, state, and local levels?

We need gun control? Where the hell have you been? We HAVE gun control!



-- Nobody ever raped a .38 --

					Ken Burk