Word: felons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest gun-control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police could determine if a handgun purchaser was a felon or mental defective prohibited from buying firearms. Lawmakers who oppose the bill, Brady suggested, should "try being in my wheels for just...
...indirect attack on Wright, who is under investigation by the House ethics committee. Others feel that rehabilitation occurred before adequate retribution. Mack may have satisfied the demands of the legal system, but his elevation to a position of privilege may yet offend a larger notion of decency. Should a felon who has been denied the right to vote be instrumental in making the nation's laws...
...most important commercial implication should be the obsolescence of "Ollie North for President" paraphernalia. As a convicted felon, North is no longer eligible to be elected as President--or as dog-catcher, for that matter...
Among the dark, walled fortresses of U.S. penology, Stillwater is considered a well-secured country club with a relatively mellow population. It is a kind of felon's Lake Wobegon where gangs do not rule and sex offenders outnumber those who have killed; a prison where only the guards wear uniforms and only four of them carry firearms. Other U.S. prisons are overcrowded, but each Stillwater resident has a cell of his own, a TV if he chooses to buy one, and ready access to a dozen phones mounted on the wall beneath the towering, barred windows of the cellblock...
...effect, waiting periods range from 30 days in New York to zero in Virginia and Oregon, where Purdy bought his rifle.) Such a cooling-off period is thought necessary to allow time for a thorough background check that would disclose whether the would-be buyer is a felon or mentally ill. Such proposals have picked up powerful new allies: police chiefs who once opposed gun control but fear that their patrolmen are being outgunned by crack-dealing gangs and other criminals...