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Title: Obama admin will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban
Post by: mudbrook on February 26, 2009, 08:50:49 AM
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban

 that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.

Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1