Word: antigun
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...That to me is an effective law,'' says Richard Aborn, president of Handgun Control, the antigun lobby that helped write the bill and promoted it to victory. ``We designed it to stop felons from buying guns, and it's doing that.'' But it is hard to measure whether the law has had an impact on crime. In Colorado the state's handgun crime rates in the year after Brady have remained steady when compared with the year before. Another problem is loopholes. Brady prohibits gun sales to the mentally ill, but because of laws protecting the confidentiality of medical records...
...rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...
...week's primary results were not happy ones for Democrats. In Oklahoma, voters ousted veteran Representative Mike Synar, a liberal Clinton ally and an anti-tobacco, antigun war-horse. Nominated in his place was Virgil Cooper, a retired school principal. In Washington State, House Speaker Thomas Foley won a mere 35% of the vote in his state's open primary; four Republican candidates received the balance of the vote. "We are in a period of hesitation and uncertainty," President Clinton told Democrats at a post-primary pep talk. His prescription: "What we have to do is make this election...
...overall operation of the system. In practice this requires him to be part newsman, part technical specialist and part space-age jurist who presides over sometimes substantive disputes online. "As soon as we opened for business, gun enthusiasts jumped on us for what they saw as TIME's antigun bias," says technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It has fallen largely to Tom to figure out how to give them the space to speak their mind without letting the debate break out into a shooting...
While the N.R.A. has yet to sue the housing authority, Richard Gardiner, director of the gun lobby's state government-relations division, says a future lawsuit is possible. Among other possibilities, he adds, is "using legislation to prohibit housing authorities from putting such ((antigun)) provisions in place...