
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 20, 1991                   TAG: 9104200070
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. CUSTOMS BANS IMPORT OF TOY M-16S

While Congress, the White House and the gun and anti-gun factions wrangle over the issue of gun control, the U.S. Customs Service has decided that hundreds of toy M-16 rifles pose such a safety threat that it has banned their import.

The imitation rifles, manufactured in Japan and destined for an unnamed firm that sells replicas to gun collectors, were prohibited from passing through Customs because they failed to meet regulations that enable police to distinquish them from the real thing, the service said. - The Washington Post

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