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KeepAndBearArms.com -- We owe professor John Lott some appreciation for bringing to our attention a recent confession by a certain extremist gun banner. In his March 25 article, Lott quotes a VPC representative as saying:
"If the existing assault-weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass."
The VPC representative who said the above is Tom Diaz -- arguably one of the most extreme gun banners any independent prohibitionist organization has to offer. The NPR interview took place on Morning Edition with Bob Edwards (Larry Abramson reporting), March 11, 2004.
The full NPR report can be listened to online at the NPR website, for however long they archive their radio programs, right here:
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1760128