91.   The House has already voted to alter the financing and plans to vote in May on the repeal of the assault weapons ban, which is expected to pass.

92.   The judge ruled that the plaintiffs had not proved they were injured by the assault weapons ban.

93.   The most important Republican critic of the chemical weapons ban, Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, stayed away, reportedly because his granddaughter was in town.

94.   The National Rifle Association and a healthy contingent of the militia movement do not hide their loathing of the Brady law, the assault weapons ban or the ATF.

95.   The president talked all year about the assault weapons ban.

96.   The National Rifle Association, which opposes an assault weapons ban included in the crime bill, and the Republican leadership worked heavily to defeat it.

97.   The Wisconsin delegation split on repeal of the assault weapons ban.

98.   Then Wednesday it was a State House appearance in support of an assault weapons ban.

99.   Their proposal would have eliminated the assault weapons ban.

100.   They fought hard to strike such programs as well as the weapons ban.