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Washington was full of ideas. FBI Director Louis Freeh proposed a complete ban on assault weapons. A group of mayors presented the White House with an anticrime plan that called for gun registration and an assault-weapon ban. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley suggested a 30% sales tax on handguns, assault weapons and ammunition. But even as the President chimed in, he had a word of caution: "We have to figure out exactly what to do and in what order...
...like more restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons like the TEC-9 and the MAC-10. Though inaccurate, those guns are also cheap, easy to conceal and convertible to fully automatic operation. Last month the Senate unexpectedly adopted Diane Feinstein's assault-weapons amendment to the crime bill. It would ban the production, sale or possession of 19 models -- if it isn't squeezed out of the joint House-Senate version of the bill. Though the White House has pledged to press for legislation banning the manufacture of semiautomatic pistols like the one used by the Long Island Rail Road gunman...
Clinton could act more easily against foreign-made assault weapons. In July, after a deranged California man used three 9-mm semiautomatic weapons made in China to kill eight people in a San Francisco law firm, the President suspended imports of semiautomatic assault pistols. By law, he could ban the imports entirely, as George Bush did with larger assault rifles after another California man used one to spray a schoolyard in 1989. In spite of these measures, law-enforcement authorities report a sizable increase in imported firearms recently, especially from China and former Soviet bloc nations seeking to keep their...
...Second Amendment is about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...
Outright prohibition -- at least of handguns -- is exactly what some people have in mind. Rhode Island Senator John Chafee has twice introduced a bill to ban their sale, manufacture and possession. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy...