Norad45:

I don't remember a self-loading weapons ban being passed into law.

The assualt weapons ban was.

I remember talking personally to former Senator Bill Proxmire when they were debating the gun control act of 1968 and my objecting to its passage. He stood with me in front of the old Treasure Island store on Highway 100 in West Allis, Wisconsin trying to dance his way around without giving a direct answer to me. I remember this so vividly because behind him at both flanks stood the ultimate in hippocracy; two armed State of Wisconsin troopers in civilian clothes. Senator Proxmire was a PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. who up until that time had given blanket support to Wisconsin gun owners. He never got another one of my votes.

By the by, I voted for Bush Jr. the first time, but consider him too Facist in policy and dispite my general dislike (Not just the gun issue.) of John Kerry I felt the country as a whole would have been better off, I voted for Kerry.

History is showing that for my purposes and beliefs, I was right.

Bountyhunter