The Nation - News from May 24, 1989
The government urged a federal appeals court to uphold the Bush Administration’s ban on imported assault rifles in a case that could affect thousands of the weapons. But a lawyer for an Alabama gun shop owner argued that the government had issued permits and should release 1,250 semiautomatic rifles that the U.S. Customs Service impounded at the Birmingham, Ala., airport. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Atlanta, sat in Miami for an expedited hearing on whether to release the rifles to Don Wood, owner of Gun South Inc. in Trussville, Ala. The judges took the case under advisement.
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