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17 December 1999

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO — With a new gun-control law taking effect next month, state officials say there has been a boom in firearms sales across the state in the past few weeks. "Everybody is trying to get it while they can," said Pat Glaze, owner of the Cordova Shooting Center in Rancho Cordova. "My sales are probably triple the normal level for this time of year. It's mostly the guns they call assault rifles, although we don't like to call them that." Semiautomatic rifles... (GunPolicy.org)

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