"In addition, the rifle is only a semiautomatic, requiring a trigger pull for each shot, not fully automatic as a military rifle, which allows multiple rounds to be fired with a single pull of the trigger.

But Kristen Rand, the legislative director for the Violence Policy Center in Washington, a gun control group, said that the XM-15 seized in Muhammad's car still had features that mimic an assault weapon, including a pistol grip that makes it easy to fire from the hip and a detachable magazine that holds 10 rounds.

"It complies with the letter of the law, but it is still an assault rifle," Rand said.

The assault-weapons ban expires in 2004 and is considered likely to be the subject of a major fight in Congress."


I read someone here said that if Republicans get in that the AW ban will sunset quietly...I DON"T THINK SO.

The above is from the interview with Busmaster