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Today's N. R. A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns.

Foundation, Goal, Gun, Reality, Sports
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Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

Assault Weapons, Confusion, Gun, Restrictions, Topic

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Assault Weapons, Completely, Effect, Gun, Past, Periods

One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are.

20000, America, Gun, Stores, Wrong, Years

. . . immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act. . . [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

Congress, Giving, Gun, Regulation, Safety

You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

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