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When a gun battle broke out three weeks ago over casino gambling on the vast Mohawk Indian reservation on the New York-Quebec border, journalist Doug George, 35, became part of his own story. He picked up an AR-15 assault-style rifle and took part in an all-night shoot-out against pro-gambling forces. George, editor of two newspapers, the Akwesasne Notes and Indian Times, later wrote a gripping story about the battle, warning, "Unless we have permanent peace here, we're going to resort to terrorist methods...
...treasurer Francisco Borges said last month that Connecticut would participate in the buyout of Colt Firearms by purchasing a 47% stake in the company for $25 million. But the state has bought into a moral dilemma. Next month Colt will begin producing the Sporter, a gun similar to the AR-15, an assault rifle the company quit producing because of its use by drug traffickers. Colt contends that the Sporter will not be fully automatic, and therefore is not an assault rifle...
...makers of Colt firearms have introduced the Sporter, an assault rifle that resembles the AR-15, which was withdrawn after adverse publicity a year...
...firing more than 30 rounds in a clip. The slaughter last January of five Stockton, Calif., schoolchildren by a psychopath wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort of huge gunshot wounds once seen only in combat. The Second Amendment notwithstanding, more and more Americans have decided that something must be done to stem the nation's internal arms race...
...fronts. The Bush Administration unexpectedly imposed a ban on the importation of five different types of semi-automatic rifles, pending a review to determine whether the guns have a real sporting purpose or are used primarily to kill people. The next day Colt Industries suspended commercial sales of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the civilian copy of the military's M-16. In California the 80-member state assembly voted by a narrow margin (41 to 38) to outlaw the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic weapons, a move that could inspire two dozen other state legislatures considering similar bans...