41.   A few miles down the road, squads of flak-jacketed Ontario Provincial Police nervously clutched their military-style assault weapons and awaited dawn.

42.   A controversial death-penalty provision may cause difficulties, and the ban on assault weapons is not as safe as it once seemed.

43.   A champion of tough criminal penalties, he also endorses a ban on assault weapons.

44.   A free-lance photographer captured the image of an agent pointing his assault weapon in the general direction of Dalrymple.

45.   A self-described social moderate, Mitnick supports abortion rights, opposes mandatory school prayer and favors the ban on assault weapons.

46.   A small but extremely vocal segment here opposes the crime bill because it includes a ban on several types of assault weapons.

47.   Aborn and Chip Keating of the Arizona Lawyers Committee on Violence said there is no guarantee in the Constitution of a right to own assault weapons.

48.   According to the poll, majorities of the delegates oppose affirmative action, the legislative ban on assault weapons and public education for the children of illegal immigrants.

49.   Aides to Silver say that his main criminal justice initiative for the legislative session is a measure to ban assault weapons and place safety locks on firearms.

50.   Again, the bill allows gun owners to keep any weapons -- even assault weapons -- that they now possess legally.