To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Subject: [MEDIA] CNN Inside Business does AW slam piece Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 13:28:48 -0700 From: "David S.A. Stine" 1300 PDT, Saturday 95.07.15 CNN carries Inside Business Piece slamming the gun industry. Some choice bits of mythology: - Assault weapons were involved in 8% of crimes last year - "Semi-automatic AW's" are the choice for military use - They claim that none of the AW's banned have any legit sporting use - AW's are easily converted to full auto - that over 50 converted semi-autos were found converted to full auto in the ashes of Waco They had Richard Feldman, from ASSPC (Shooting Sports Council) and Dennis Henniger from HCI (chief counsel). They also showed Josh Sugarman's face. Here's some interesting points: - why is this coming right now? Would it be because the BATF is about to be raked over the coals? - the piece had alost nothing to do with the actual business of the industry. They barely talked about financials of the industry. It was 95% a political slam piece. The info-babe was Deborah Marchini. dsa