Actually, the weapons used in the 101 California St. were legal semi-automatic weapons. Gian Luigi Ferri had a .45 auto and two semi-auto intratec dc-9's. He had legaly bought the two intratecs two months before, in Las Vegas. The only difference at that time was that there was a 15 day wait in CA and none in NV. The papers and news coverage all said that he used Tec-9's, but I found something interesting while looking this up. One paper article said this:
Although California has had a law banning certain automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons since 1989, the particular model used in Thursday's shooting is not on the list of banned weapons, according to the state attorney general's office. A similar gun produced by the same manufacturer, however, is banned, according to government officials.
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Well, the Tec-9 was banned by the 1989 Roberti-Roos assault weapons ban. So, it had to be a dc-9 that was used. But if you read the articles about that shooting, they all say that it was a "Tec-9 Assault Weapon."
The fact that these were "legal" was the main argument from the antis.
"There is absolutely no reason why a weapon like this should be legal," said San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan yesterday. "This is a weapon of war and only war."
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