HERE WE GO AGAIN - ANOTHER USELESS GUN LAW.

President Obama has been publically calling for the renewing of the Assault Weapon Ban. The original Ban was approved by Congress in 1994 for 10 years. It banned 19 types of military-style assault weapons. He said, "AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities." The civilian version of the AK-47, though it looks like a machine gun used by the military, is the same as a deer-hunting rifle. Compared to a deer-hunting rifle, the civilian version uses similar bullets, fires at the same rapidity, and does the same damage. His support of the Ban is not unusual; he supported banning semi-automatic guns, which includes most of the guns in the United States, as a senator for Illinois in 1998. However, no published peer-reviewed studies by economists or criminologists find that the original federal or state assault-weapons ban reduced murder or overall violent crime. Actually, since the federal ban expired, in September 2004, murder and overall violent crime rates have fallen. President Obama's policies, the Assault Weapon Ban, along with other gun-control legislation, are threats to law-abiding, gun-carrying citizens.