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<text id=89TT2241>
<title>
Aug. 28, 1989: American Notes:Firearms
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 15
American Notes
FIREARMS
Bring Home A Friend
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<p> Having served one's country abroad, each discharged soldier
should have the right to bring home a submachine gun as "small
recompense for the isolation, the boredom and the risk of
overseas duty." So argues the National Rifle Association in a
letter to drug czar William Bennett, who championed the ban on
imported semiautomatic rifles. Bennett, the N.R.A. letter
gratuitously points out, was neither isolated nor at risk during
his draft-vulnerable years at the height of the Viet Nam War
but instead was engaged in "scholarly pursuits" as a graduate
student.
</p>
<p> Assistant N.R.A. counsel James Warner says he only meant to
describe the life of a soldier to Bennett and explain why
bringing back a semiautomatic weapon "bought in good faith" is
so important to G.I.s. Is Bennett going to answer Warner's
letter soon? No, says Bennett's office. Is he ever going to
answer Warner's letter? "Basically, the answer is no."
</p>
</body></article>
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