Word: handgun
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...death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent...
That last, striking statistic has turned into an N.R.A, rallying cry. Thrown on the defensive, Handgun Control has countered that Florida's rate for all violent crime went up 18% during the same period. And last week the University of Maryland released contradictory numbers: it reported three Florida cities as having experienced rises in gun homicides since 1986, ranging from 3% (Miami) to 74% (Jacksonville...
...police sources later defended their actions, pointing out that they retrieved mace, knives and a handgun from concert-goers...
...That to me is an effective law,'' says Richard Aborn, president of Handgun Control, the antigun lobby that helped write the bill and promoted it to victory. ``We designed it to stop felons from buying guns, and it's doing that.'' But it is hard to measure whether the law has had an impact on crime. In Colorado the state's handgun crime rates in the year after Brady have remained steady when compared with the year before. Another problem is loopholes. Brady prohibits gun sales to the mentally ill, but because of laws protecting the confidentiality of medical records...
Brady also quickly lost one of its most effective provisions, which required a background check and waiting period for anyone reclaiming a gun from a pawnshop. According to Handgun Control, Houston police reported that of 199 gun sales that were blocked in the first three weeks after Brady went into effect, 177 involved pawnshop transactions. But the crime bill passed by the last Congress contained a little-noticed provision that removed from scrutiny anyone reclaiming pawn merchandise...