Word: guns
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...Korea, as he did to Iraq, and says he has not cut deals for access there either. Yet the next time CNN reports from Pyongyang, the audience will be straining to see past the edge of the screen, looking for the man who--metaphorically or not--is holding the gun...
Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft have quietly sidetracked a White House--promised study of ballistics fingerprinting, a forensic technique hotly opposed by the gun lobby. Last October, during the Washington sniper shootings, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer dismissed calls for a national ballistics fingerprint database that would link possible criminals to the unique markings left on spent bullets. But after critics accused the White House of being too beholden to the National Rifle Association, President Bush reversed course and ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to conduct a scientific study of the technique, in which microscopic markings...
...months later, the study hasn't even begun. ATF officials were about to get started when the agency was transferred by the Homeland Security reorganization from the Treasury Department to Justice. Aides to Ashcroft, a dependable ally of the pro-gun lobby, then raised concerns about a January 2003 California state government report suggesting that wear and tear may alter a gun's ballistic signature. ATF firearms experts challenged the California findings, but Ashcroft's advisers decided to take the White House study away from ATF and hand it to an outside, presumably more objective, agency. "We wanted to have...
...Senate will soon be voting on a bill passed by the House of Representatives that grants gun dealers, distributors and manufacturers immunity from almost all litigation. Denise Johnson, whose husband died last fall in the Washington-area sniper shootings and who is suing the store that supplied the rifle, told reporters, “I’m appalled and outraged that Congress can take away my rights as an American to have my day in court...
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