Private Arsenals and Public Peril

Private Arsenals and Public Peril

To the Editor: In your editorial “Private Arsenals and Public Peril” (May 7 issue), 1 you state, “Kits to convert semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic machine guns should be outlawed.” In fact, the availability of automatic weapons (i.e., machine guns) has been severely restricted and registra...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 1998-08, Vol.339 (8), p.565-566
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