Word: handgun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sarah Brady, the vice chairman of Handgun Control, Inc., said that although law-abiding citizens should be allowed to have guns for "legitimate reasons," such as self-defense, legislators should ensure that felons and the mentally incompetent are able to obtain them...
...have to make it as easy to buy a handgun as it is to buy bubble gum or tuna fish," she said...
...real problem is saving people's lives. It's a public safety issue," Brady said. She added, "No matter what statistic you want to use, 20,000 handgun deaths each year is just too many...
...forces her into the full tub. She struggles, then ceases, blood rising from her mouth. But you can't keep a bad woman -- or a citation from the landmark French chiller Diabolique -- down. Alex springs screaming from the tub and slashes at Dan, as Beth appears brandishing a handgun and kills Alex with a bullet through the chest...
Police are concerned that the relaxed regulations do not set minimal competency standards for using firearms and reduce to 48 hours the maximum cooling-off period for purchasing a handgun. Stricter criteria were required in some counties under local ordinances, which the state law supersedes. In Broward County, for example, gun-permit applicants had to pay a $500 fee, pass an extensive police check, complete a handgun safety course, have an approved reason for carrying a gun and undergo a psychological examination. As a result, the county had only 24 outstanding licenses for concealed weapons...