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Assault-style weapons have such features as pistol grips, which allow weapons to be spray-fired from the hip.
"Fear has escalated in this country to a level I never thought possible." said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the author of the gun ban.
Senate votes to outlaw assault-style weapons
The Associated Press
Attorney General Janet Reno endorsed the measure, saying that removing the weapons from the street was a first, big step and a sign that America's love affair with guns was coming to an end.
WASHINGTON — Heeding the nation's rising concern about street violence, the Senate voted yesterday to ban the manufacture or sale of 10 types of assault-style weapons — bullet-spraying firearms that mimic those intended for combat.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Ell, challenged the House, which has never voted for an assault-weapons ban, to "understand the power of the idea, the idea whose time has come."
Feinstein's proposal would stop the manufacture or sale and possession of 19 specified semiautomatic assault weapons and would bar production of copycat models. But more than 650 hunting weapons would be exempted by name. People already owning the assault weapons would not be required to give them up.
The ban, stifter than any previously passed by either house of Congress, was approved despite the opposition of the National Rifle Association. The action came as the Senate neared passage of a $22.3 billion anti-crime bill that would put more police on the streets and would build new prisons.
NRA representative William McIntyre said the 56-43 vote on the assault-style ban reflected the "misguided" view "that these sort of gun control measures, gun bans, will have an impact on violent crime."
"It will be an uphill fight in the House, but I believe the way it's moving, I believe this will pass," Biden told reporters.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said that Congress probably would have to wait until early next year to send a final compromise bill to President Clinton. A recent poll showed that many Americans considered crime a more important problem
than unemployment or health care.
After the crime bill, the Senate was scheduled to move to the Brady bill, which would impose a five-day waiting period and a background check on all would-be handgun purchasers.
THE NEWS in brief
CHARLESTON, S.C.
Court lets woman study at all-male college until it rules on lawsuit
A woman may attend classes with cadets at The Citadel while her lawsuit challenging the military college's all-male admissions policy is heard, an appeals court ruled yesterday.
Shannon Faulkner's lawsuit says The Citadel's all-male corps is unconstitutional. She would be the first women to attend day classes with cadets in The Citadel's 151-year history. Women are currently allowed in night and summer classes.
U. S. District Judge C. Weston Houck ruled in August that Faulkner could attend day classes but not participate in the military program until her lawsuit was resolved.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Houck's order yesterday, attorneys for Faulkner and The Citadel said.
The appeals court said it would release its decision today. Citadel attorney Dawes Cooke said the school
would decide whether to appeal after reviewing the decision.
Faulkner, who had references to her gender removed from her high school transcript, actually was briefly admitted to The Citadel earlier this year. The school kicked her out when she learned she is a woman. Her attorney said Faulkner would probably register next semester.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
NASA sets Hubble repair mission
NASA yesterday officially set Dec. 1 as the launch date for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.
Endeavour is due to lift off on the 11-day flight at 4:57 a.m. A record five space walks are planned to correct Hubble's vision and replace wobbly solar panels and other defective parts. Four astronauts will take turns going out in pairs.
Hubble was launched in April 1990 from the shuttle Discovery. Two months later, NASA discovered the telescope's primary mirror had been polished incorrectly.
The repair mission is to be the year's seventh and final shuttle flight.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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