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McLaughlin: Sights are set on gun ban
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| Contributor | *crickets chirp* |
| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* Nov 10, 2003 12:39pm |
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| News Date | Monday, November 10, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "In 1990, New Jersey banned semiautomatic rifles known as assault weapons. Appalled gun fanciers joined hands with Hands Across New Jersey -- an anti-tax outfit -- to limit Gov. Jim Florio to one term. Florio was in due course beaten in the 1993 election, and the gun lobby -- the Coalition of New Jersey Sportsmen -- got a lot of credit.
But it was his huge increase in taxes, not guns, that did in Florio. In fact, the gun issue nearly won it for him.
The New Jersey experience lent heart to politicians in Washington, and nine years ago Congress enacted its own ban on semiautomatic weapons. But it comes with a sunset provision that comes due next September."
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