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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)	9/18/2004 9:53:34 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

all machine guns are assault weapons. NOT all assault weapons are machine guns. kinda like all apples are fruit but not all fruit are apples.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)	9/18/2004 9:55:31 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 27181

FYI .. that assault weapons ban had nothing to do with machine guns. Those were already against another law passed decades ago and is still in effect ..

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)	9/18/2004 9:57:40 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Criminals use machine guns to commit crimes. All of that is against existing laws. Those laws just need to be enforced.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)	9/18/2004 10:02:01 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 27181

You question should be reversed. The assault weapon ban became is simply stupid because they wrote ridiculous definitions for assault weapon. It became more of what it looked like than it's actual function. All machine guns would be assault weapons.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)	9/18/2004 10:43:33 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

The answer is no. An assault weapon is a term that did not even exist in the dictionary before the Assault Weapons Ban. Legislators made it up hoping that people would automatically assume they were machine guns to aid with the passage of the ban. The confusion occurs due to the real dictionary term assault rifle. Assault rifle is a real term and describes a select fire machine gun that fires a cartridge larger than a pistol cartridge but small than a high powered rifle cartridge. Select fire means that with the push of a button, it switches between machine gun mode and single shot mode.