November 23, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

The list of banned weapons

Here is a list of the 19 named assault-style firearms banned under the crime law:

AK-47 and all models of the Norinco, Mitchell and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs, designed in the former Soviet Union in 1947. AK-47s were used in 1989 by the man who shot five children to death in a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard, and a man who killed eight people at a printing plant in Louisville, Ky.

Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil.

Intratec TEC-9, TEC-22 and TEC-DC9, used to kill eight people in a San Francisco law firm in July 1993.

SWD M-10, M-11, M-11-9 and M-12. Based on the design of the MAC-10, their full-automatic cousin, these assault pistols are designed to fire many bullets over a wide area in seconds.

Street Sweeper and Striker 12 and other revolving cylinder semiautomatic shotguns. Banned from import into the United States in 1989 by President Bush, these riot-control guns went into domestic production almost immediately afterward.

Beretta AR-70 and SC-70, used by armed forces in a number of countries including Italy, Jordan and Malaysia.

Colt AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 rifle that is the U.S. military’s standard-issue rifle.

Several weapons manufactured by Fabrique Nationale, the FN-FAL, FN-LAR and FNC. The guns are used by the armed forces of more than 90 countries.

Steyr AUG, a rifle made in Germany.


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