Posted: 9/13/2011 3:53:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: It had a major effect on EBR owners & would be owners. It was the start of a trend, although not a good one. It was a day of tragedy. Assault weapons ban? Kinda here is the WIKI on the Cleveland shooting |
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Yep. In Stocton,CA. Patrick Purdy shot up a group of kids at the Cleveland School.Huge tragedy. It was the event that brought EBRs to the public
eye in a huge way. Before that most people,even gun owners did not know guns like that existed or were legal. I was on the fence about whether I should get a Colt AR15 for about $400 N.I.B., or save a little longer & get the HK91 N.I.B. for about $470.On 1/18/89 prices went up by a factor of 5. or more. I lived in San Antonio at the time. I remember seeing Mini14s for $2,200,HKs for $2,500,ARs for $2,500. I was also into assembling ARs at that time. I remember dialing Quality Parts(Bushmaster) all day for weeks & getting a busy signal all the time. It was madness. EBR prices have been on a roller coaster ride ever since. |
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Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life. Edit: I did not use Google. I used Wiki. 
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Reagan's "Shining City on a Hill" speech? It was that week anyway Six Days earlier January 11, 1989, farewell speech to the nation: ...I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.... |
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WikipediaFU!
Zhang Mo (born 17 January 1989) is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Canada. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition. She was born in Shijiazhuang, and resides in Ottawa. 
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