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AK-47s Flooding US Cities

Gun dealers skirt import ban, as assaults with semiautomatics skyrocket

By Paul Stinson, Newser User

Posted Jul 17, 2008 3:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – At least one of America’s borders is wide open: Gun manufacturers are selling imported semiautomatic weapons with ease ever since the Bush administration allowed 1994's assault weapons ban to lapse, writes Bruce Falconer for Mother Jones. “We’re being flooded with these AK-47s,... Read full story »

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