Word: banning
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...nationwide ban would still leave 67 million handguns in circulation. How hard it would be to reclaim many of those is evident from the few places already trying to spoon them up through gun buybacks or givebacks. Operation Cease-fire in Denver encourages people to turn in guns to the police, no questions asked, for tickets to Nuggets, Broncos and Rockies games or tickets to the Museum of Natural History. But buybacks tend to run out of steam and over budget. Minnesota's Hennepin County, which offered $50 a gun, spent more than $300,000 last year to collect...
...handgun ban is the atomic weapon of gun control, it also inspires the same reluctance to use it; for most Americans, it seems too radical a step. Even Handgun Control Inc. shies away from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before...
Negotiators overcame several obstacles to a major world trade agreement by resolving the persistently thorny issue of protection for French farmers and by lifting a Japanese ban on rice imports. Progress was halted, however, by France's demand that it retain subsidies and protection for its film industry. The talks face a Wednesday deadline...
...City Under Fire: In Milwaukee a rash of murders provokes revulsion, vigils and a drive to ban handguns...
...fear of violence into a rejection of guns. Violence is out of control, they argue; guns cause much of the violence, therefore it is time to get serious about controlling the guns. President Clinton used the shooting to renew his call for tougher laws and licensing and a ban on assault weapons. In his weekly radio address on Saturday, Clinton said the nation must fight "violence with values," and mentioned the well-publicized abduction and death of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in California as well as the commuter-train slaughter as examples of violence that "has left Americans insecure...