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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 2, 1990                   TAG: 9004020270
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

COLT MAY BE BACK WITH ASSAULT RIFLE

The most popular U.S.-made assault-style weapon - the Colt AR15 rifle - may soon be back on the civilian market, and some gun-control advocates are dismayed at the prospect.

Colt Industries Inc voluntarily shut down production for the civilian market in March 1989 after the government temporarily suspended imports of similar foreign-made rifles, and it never resumed them, according to Mike Dunn, spokesman for Colt Industries.

But Colt Firearms Division of the company was sold March 22 to a group of investors, C.F. Holding, leading to the possible change in policy.

-Associated Press 


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