Word: handgun
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...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 to enact a strong law on the national level. While local...
...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. All of these actions have come at a time when public opinion polls show a majority of Americans in favor of federal gun registration...
...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...unofficially scheduled for April 26. Feinstein and her aides fear that even if she survives the recall vote, she could suffer politically in the regular quadrennial election coming up in November. Two-thirds of the voters are Democrats, as is Feinstein, who took office in 1978 after the handgun murder of Mayor George Moscone; the next year she won the popular election. Admits a Feinstein adviser of the April vote: "We can't afford to win this one by only...
...partner in Mob-connected enterprises, walked to lunch through the parking lot of the suburban Hyatt Lincolnwood Hotel near Chicago, two men wearing ski masks ran up behind them. "This is a stickup!" yelled one. But obviously it was not. The man opened fire immediately with a .22-cal. handgun, hitting Dorfman in the back of the head seven times. As the attackers fled, Dorfman lay dying in a pool of blood. Weiner was uninjured...