Word: colorado
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...Colorado's thriving weekend gun marts, business is pretty good these days. In the Denver suburb of Commerce City, where gun shoppers graze the warehouse aisles, you can buy a .22-cal. pistol for just $70. Granted, prices are down from a year ago, when passage of the Brady Law led to a surge of panic buying. But it's because of Brady that business is also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however...
...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, such people often can't be distinguished...
...There is a full boycott at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Washington is looking into [Mitsubishi's practices]," he said...
Bellman has also worked as an instructor at the Colorado and Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School...
Very few Harvard students can claim that they formed a one-two offensive punch with Rasham Salaam, Colorado's star tailback, recently voted by sportswriters as the best college football player in the country...