Word: gunness
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...editorial on Sept. 13 (“An Assault on Democracy,”) laments the Assault Weapons Ban’s expiration as though the law actually had practical effects other than to annoy gun owners. However, Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas was right to deride the ban as a meaningless “feel-good piece of legislation” whic bans some guns while keeping other, equally lethal guns legal and restricts freedom without promoting safety...
...Crimson Staff notes that the ban prohibits a few “assault rifles,” such as the Uzi, by name. However, gun manufacturers continue to manufacture substantially the same weapons under new names with cosmetic changes. For example, the ban prohibited the Colt AR-15, thus spawning the similarly-featured but differently-named Bushmaster...
Junior roommates Kate B. Yearwood and Mo C. McCaffery of Quincy House, were two of the many students within earshot of the incident who fled once the gun was fired...
ATTN: Smoking gun! According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 U.S. companies has had employee e-mails subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation so far this year. The cost of gathering such electronic data: $700 million--expected to grow to $1.8 billion in 2006. This promises to be a boon for the e-mail archivers--a niche industry that has emerged to help companies cope by shifting from the costly process of sorting through unorganized data stored on backup tapes to proactive email archiving with speedy search engines. In August, Veritas Software paid $225 million...
According to unofficial results of the primary election, Toomey, a six-term incumbent who is also a member of the Cambridge City Council, defeated Avi E. Green after a heated campaign in which the candidates sparred on issues ranging from gun control to their campaign finance records...