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[Rick Faurot]

Assault weapons ban to expire Monday

Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 8:11 AM EDT (1211 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Ten years after it was born out of the carnage of three California mass shootings, the federal assault weapons ban is fading out of existence Monday.

While manufacturers look for a boom in business as people buy up previously banned weapons like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s, police chiefs warn of an upsurge in crime.