[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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                          BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS

  (Mr. KREIDLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KREIDLER. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that conferees on the crime 
bill have agreed to keep the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.
  There are more than 1 million of these weapons in the United States 
today.
  They are not designed for sport.
  They are not designed for hunting.
  They are designed to assault and kill.
  Just last month, in my State of Washington, 1 man murdered 4 people 
and wounded 23 others in a matter of seconds.
  That's the power of an MAK-90 assault weapon.
  Violence is an epidemic in America. It kills more than 50,000 people 
each year. It costs $3 billion in medical bills alone.
  Government cannot eliminate violence or solve all the problems of 
crime.
  Stopping violence starts with each of us, in our homes, schools, 
communities, and businesses.
  But we, in Congress, can do something about the deadliest violence of 
all. Only assault weapons produce such random, wanton, and ruthless 
killing--and that is why we must ban them.

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