Word: groves
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...years Congress has avoided passing even modest gun registration measures, wary of incurring the well-financed wrath of shooters' groups like the National Rifle Association. But the town fathers of Morton Grove, Ill. (pop. 24,000), a genteel suburb northwest of Chicago, are not so timorous. Beginning next Monday, selling or possessing a handgun in Morton Grove will be a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The law against possession, passed 4 to 2 by the village trustees and upheld by a federal district court, is the most stringent gun control statute...
Authorities are counting on voluntary compliance. Morton Grove police are not launching an enforcement drive. Handgun enthusiasts could easily circumvent the law anyway by buying and storing their weapons in neighboring towns. Gun clubs and collectors of antique pistols are exempt from the ban. Indeed, Village Trustee Don Sneider knows that the effect of the legislation will be as much symbolic as practical. "Our little town can't change society," he says. "But we're making waves...
...N.R.A. is predictably alarmed, calling the Morton Grove bans "the most dangerous attack ever staged against the right to keep and bear arms." The 2 million-member group and a smaller gun lobby based in Washington State have financed four lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the ownership prohibition. But the village government is sticking to its guns, mounting court defenses of the law with the help of a $15,000 subsidy from the National Coalition to Ban Handguns...
...Rammed down the throats of the Duarte regime by American officials desperate for some improvements to point to, land reform has been so far a frustrating and occasionally lethal business, as a series of essays in a superb new book, El Salvador. Central America in the Cold War (Grove Press; $7,95), makes clear...
Keith Peterson Buffalo Grove...