[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2669]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ASSAULT WEAPONS

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, assault weapons. The narcotic of the NRA. 
The weapon of choice for lunatics bent on slaughtering large numbers of 
their fellow men, women, and children.
  Congress banned these killing machines. The public is disgusted with 
gun violence. But now a radical wing of the Republican Party, which 
controls decisionmaking in the House of Representatives, has decided to 
legalize these crowd-killing devices again.
  Why? Promises made, and promises kept. Promises made and promises 
kept. The NRA has come to town to redeem a promise, and the Republicans 
who made this deadly deal are about to keep it.
  The whole world is watching. It is appalled that a Nation soaked in 
the blood of gun violence would legalize the more efficient massacre of 
innocents.
  Let us stop this Congress before it hurts people across this country.

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