Video/Text about incident:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/24/mia ... storyview#
Video about ban:
http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/e ... 1701606629
Lots of annoying things here:
The reporter says that AK-47s were banned in 1994-2004. That's not correct, just the future importation/manufacture of semi-auto variants.
The mayor says that the murder weapon "is a weapon of war and shouldn't be on the streets of America". Who uses semi-auto AK's in a battlefield?
There was some stat that "assault" weapon crimes in Miami increased exponentially after 2004. Miami is so infested with drug crime (and who knows what weapons were classified as assault weapons in this statistic) that it is a poor representation of crime committed using these types of firearms in the US. I also get tired of the victims being exploited to promote new laws. After all, if a gun control law doesn't work, the only reason why is that it wasn't tough enough, right?
Finally, the police chief said he had a personal assurance from Joe Biden that a new AWB would be passed. HR 6257 is already in committee (
http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=65687). This could be the incident that is used as an excuse to take away our firearms once again. I also really doubt there will be a sunset provision this time around. I've already written my letters to my representatives in Congress, but honestly I wonder if we can really do that much as citizens to prevent this kind of junk from being passed and shoved down our throats.