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...compelling contrast in both personality and fighting styles, plus a healthy dose of family psychodrama. Mayweather grew up fighting in Grand Rapids, Mich., where his father, Floyd Sr., taught him how to punch in his stroller. When Floyd was a year old, his mother's brother pulled a gun on his dad. "I told him, 'If you're going to kill me, you're going to kill him too,'" says Mayweather Sr., who was holding his son. "'That's all I got in the world.'" Honoring Mayweather family values, the uncle then shot Floyd...
...gun-rights advocates now believe they have set off a ticking time bomb that will prevent the Democrats from avoiding the gun question in the 2008 presidential election. On March 9, in a case called Parker v. District of Columbia, the federal appeals court in Washington struck down the city's ban on private handgun possession at home, one of the most extreme gun-control laws in the country ever since it was passed in 1976. Only Chicago and a few other Illinois communities have similarly sweeping handgun bans on the books; no state has followed Washington's lead. Gun...
Until the massacre at Virginia Tech, the last thing the Democrats wanted was a debate about guns. Convinced that Al Gore lost Tennessee in 2000 partly because of his support for gun control in the primaries, moderate Democrats elected to Congress last November from formerly Republican districts often proclaimed their support for gun owners' rights. And even after the shootings at Blacksburg, it's not obvious that the new Democratic Congress wants to take the political risk of resurrecting the federal assault-weapons ban, which the Republican Congress allowed to expire in 2004. Although majorities of Americans support...
...Polls on guns are hotly contested. But national majorities have consistently opposed sweeping bans, however rare, on handguns while supporting the more moderate gun-control measures that are common in many states--including waiting periods and background checks. That's why the Parker litigation, spearheaded by Bob Levy of the libertarian Cato Institute, seems like the perfect Supreme Court test case for gun-rights supporters. "We picked the D.C. law because it is so extreme," Levy told me. Now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been replaced by Samuel Alito, Levy is "cautiously optimistic" of victory next June...
...challenges to many of the moderate regulations that most Americans support. "You could very easily envision a challenge to the Brady Law on the grounds that there shouldn't be background checks for the exercise of a constitutional right," says Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Henigan also imagines challenges to the federal machine-gun ban and to a wide array of state licensing and registration laws. And convicted criminals might routinely contest the sentencing laws that increase their jail time for using a gun...