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...FIRST MONDAY in October brought some good news to the Village Trustees of Morton Grove, Ill., a suburban community of 24,000 just northwest of Chicago. By refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure...
...passage of the gun ordinance in Morton Grove was really an act of desperation by a group of citizens fed up with the increasing number of needless deaths. In 1979 alone, 10,738 people were murdered with handguns in the United States. Two of those victims were from Morton Grove, teenage girls shot to death in a wooded area of the community. When a local businessman announced plans to open a gun shop in the town two years after those killings, the Trustees acted swiftly. The result was the strongest anti-gun law ever passed in the United States...
Although the Morton Grove ordinance is the strongest in the nation, it is just one of the many new gun laws enacted by state and local governments in recent years. Some communities have banned the sale of ammunition, while others have instituted police registration programs. Cities as large as San Francisco and Washington, D.C. have strengthened their gun control laws considerably in the past five years. This year, the state of Washington lengthened the waiting period required for handgun purchases in order to allow police more time to check the medical and criminal records of gun license applicants...
...Trustees of Morton Grove faced the same kind of political intimidation and, despite NRA-backed opposition, all were re-elected by wide margins. So if Morton Grove can stand up to the NRA and win, why can't the Congress of the United States...
...produces annually is used to keep leaded gasoline from fouling auto engines. Because the chemical is added at refineries in a closed system and breaks down during engine combustion, such use is considered safe enough. The danger comes from agricultural practice: growers inject it into citrus grove soils to control rootworms, and exporters fumigate some $29 million worth of fruit with it to meet foreign quarantine laws...