Word: handgun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buckley said his bill would allow a six-month period during which handgun owners could turn in their guns and be reimbursed for them. People found possessing handguns after that period would receive a mandatory one-year jail sentence...
Moore was arraigned on a charge of attempting "to kill the President of the United States by the use of a handgun." She asked for and was given a public defender, James Hewitt, as her attorney. U.S. Magistrate Owen Woodruff set bail at $500,000 and, with the concurrence of both Hewitt and the U.S. Attorney's office, ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests at Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. That may take 60 days. Said one top police official: "This looks like completely a mental case, and if that's what finally comes out, that should wrap...
...latest assassination attempts have brought renewed outcries to restrict and reduce the 40 million handguns that will take more than 10,000 lives in the U.S. this year. Said Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley: "We can no longer live with the nightmare staring at us out of the barrels of handguns." Calling for the "complete elimination of handguns," Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley scoffed, "You don't see someone shooting rabbits with a handgun. The only thing you hunt is human beings." With a greater sense of grievance than most people, Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "If America cares...
...York Democrat who authored the ineffective 1968 gun-control law banning some imports, introduced a new bill to require registration of all guns and owners; anyone buying a gun would have to get a certificate of eligibility. Democratic Congressman John Conyers from Detroit proposed confiscating almost every handgun except those used by the police and armed services...
...rebuttal, Susan Sullivan, a member of the Chicago-based Committee for Handgun Control, told the Congressmen: "Seventy percent of the people want strong gun control. The people are plain outraged at the violence...