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Expiration of Gun Ban Prompts Misleading TV Report and Ad
Posted 9/11/2004 from CNSNews
"Gun control advocates and some media outlets are misleading the public into thinking that fully automatic weapons will hit the streets on Monday, when the so-called 'assault weapons ban' expires, Second Amendment supporters say.
The Second Amendment Foundation is blasting ABC News for 'distorting the facts' in a report that aired on Wednesday evening, Sept. 8.
The segment opened with footage of a 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery, in which the robbers fired fully automatic weapons. The report by ABC News Correspondent Bill Redeker suggested that such firearms would be legal when the assault weapons ban expires at midnight on Sept. 13.
The gun used in the bank robbery had been illegally modified, the Second Amendment Foundation said, 'yet ABC News left the impression that such rifles will be available to the general public.'
Second Amendment groups, including the National Rifle Association, note that the sale and possession of fully automatic weapons is, has been, and will remain strictly regulated by the federal government.
The 1994 'assault weapons ban' ('Clinton gun ban,' as some call it) had nothing to do with fully automatic guns; it applied to semi-automatic weapons with certain 'military-style' cosmetic features.
By definition, semi-automatic weapons fire once each time the trigger is pulled -- one bullet per trigger pull -- while fully automatic firearms fire many bullets in rapid succession with just one trigger pull.
'ABC's research on this story was either incredibly poor or deliberately distorted,' said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. 'It's the same distorted reporting we saw in 1994, prior to the ban, in which the press faked footage in an attempt to portray ammunition from these guns as explosively lethal.'"
You can read the complete story at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200409\CUL20040910a.html
Expiration of Gun Ban Prompts Misleading TV Report and Ad
Posted 9/11/2004 from CNSNews
"Gun control advocates and some media outlets are misleading the public into thinking that fully automatic weapons will hit the streets on Monday, when the so-called 'assault weapons ban' expires, Second Amendment supporters say.
The Second Amendment Foundation is blasting ABC News for 'distorting the facts' in a report that aired on Wednesday evening, Sept. 8.
The segment opened with footage of a 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery, in which the robbers fired fully automatic weapons. The report by ABC News Correspondent Bill Redeker suggested that such firearms would be legal when the assault weapons ban expires at midnight on Sept. 13.
The gun used in the bank robbery had been illegally modified, the Second Amendment Foundation said, 'yet ABC News left the impression that such rifles will be available to the general public.'
Second Amendment groups, including the National Rifle Association, note that the sale and possession of fully automatic weapons is, has been, and will remain strictly regulated by the federal government.
The 1994 'assault weapons ban' ('Clinton gun ban,' as some call it) had nothing to do with fully automatic guns; it applied to semi-automatic weapons with certain 'military-style' cosmetic features.
By definition, semi-automatic weapons fire once each time the trigger is pulled -- one bullet per trigger pull -- while fully automatic firearms fire many bullets in rapid succession with just one trigger pull.
'ABC's research on this story was either incredibly poor or deliberately distorted,' said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. 'It's the same distorted reporting we saw in 1994, prior to the ban, in which the press faked footage in an attempt to portray ammunition from these guns as explosively lethal.'"
You can read the complete story at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200409\CUL20040910a.html