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...that require licenses for firearms. Yet never have New Yorkers, for example, needed protection so desperately. Only last week a 63-year-old lawyer, Leonard Simpson, was shot to death in the self-service elevator of his West Side apartment house. An 84-year-old New York shopkeeper, Frank Felicetti, recently shot and killed an intruder who, he said, had robbed and beaten him twice before. Felicetti was arrested for violating the city's Sullivan Law, which forbids owning unlicensed concealable weapons. He faces a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $1,000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Safety: The Right of Self-Defense | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

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