"If the existing assault weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one [bit] of difference one way or another in terms of our objective which is reducing death and injury and getting particularly lethal class of firearms off the street, so if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass." -- Tom Diaz, spokesman for the Violence Policy Center.

Of course gun owners knew that already. Only a moron would expect a ban on guns with bayonet lugs and folding stocks to make the bullets less lethal.