Word: bans
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...groups have indicated that a hand-gun ban would actually increase shooting fatalities, by forcing criminals to switch to larger guns. But if banning handguns might lead to an increase in gun-related death rates, banning all guns certainly would...
...pursuits, it is clear that the members, along with those in similar groups throughout the country, nurture a profound paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths of white supremacist Randy Weaver's wife and son in a 1992 Idaho confrontation and the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas, that resulted...
...divided Supreme Court struck down the 1990Gun-Free School ZonesAct, a federal law banning possession of guns within 1,000 feet of a school. Congress had enacted the ban on grounds that school violence interfered with national economic productivity. But five of the Justices disagreed with that logic. Chief Justice William Rehnquist called the Act "a criminal statute that by its terms has nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of economic enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms." More than 40 states already outlaw gun possession on or near school grounds. Those laws are not affected...
...speeches with last week's, and with some of his other recent statements, and the magnitude of the lurch becomes clear. When he ran for the 1980 nomination, Dole swiped at "single-issue constituencies," like those seeking to preserve "the right to bear arms." Today Dole favors repealing the ban on assault weapons. Back then Dole described America as "the Mother of Exiles" and spoke movingly about "not fearing that new Americans [might] threaten to diminish a finite national wealth." Today he supports the G.O.P.'s anti-immigrant stance. Back then he warned against "dividing a people to conquer office...
Ever since the trade ban was lifted, moreover, a pack of U.S. companies has raced into the country to sniff out opportunities. But while the embargo's end may have opened the door, no American firm will manufacture in Vietnam products to be sold in the U.S. so long as Vietnam is not granted most-favored-nation status. Such a move enjoys growing support in the Senate, where a resolution calling for full diplomatic ties will be introduced soon. The resolution is popular for reasons that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created...