THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 11, 1996 TAG: 9604110002
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 26 lines
It never ceases to amaze me how journalists and newspaper editors lie to the public on the issue of the so-called assault-style weapons.
In your March 23 edition, nine so-called assault weapons were illustrated as rapid-fire weapons? Amazing!
I spent 28 years in the service, and my speciality was weapons and weapons systems. If you can show me how the illustrated weapons shown are rapid fire, I would be amazed. Not one of these weapons are automatic fire; they are semi-automatic only. That requires a pull of the trigger for each round fired, so how can you state they are rapid fire? Impossible! But this is the famous anti-gun lie to scare the public.
PHILIP W. FLUKE
Virginia Beach, March 26, 1996 by CNB