On 2005-01-15T09:38:23+0000, Justin wrote:
On 2005-01-14T15:42:18-0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Seems like scare-mongering to me, not a practical concern.
Of course it's not a practical concern. Criminals already have access to handguns that will defeat common soft body armor. This media panic was instigated by a press release from the Violence Policy Center, which has evidently (for now) given up trying to pass a new assault weapon ban, and is instead finding new legislative targets.
I didn't remember which group it was, and I guessed wrong. It wasn't the VPC. It was the Brady Campaign/MMM. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=41691 -- "War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free." -Heraclitus 53