DID YOU KNOW? . . Major police labor groups that originally supported the 1994 “assault weapon” gun “ban” have now recognized its failure and declined to support the renewal. The National Association of Police Organizations, a group that has endorsed John Kerry for president, chose not to support the renewal of the ban, a reversal from its position in 1994. Learn all about it from James Fotis, executive director of Law Enforcement Alliance of America in The Idaho Statesman.