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Buckley is also an advocate of handgun legislation, which has drawn criticism from Sullivan. A rather conservative Democrat, Sullivan is a law and order candidate who believes citizens should be allowed to bear arms without restriction...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
...robbers then took Miller's belt that carried eight master keys, handcuffs, a walkie-talkie and police club. They relieved Miller of his handgun and took six rounds of ammunition, police said...
Sources later suggested this man might have been Vincent Terrell, reportedly a guest lecturer at UMass in the History of Theater. Terrell was arrested following the meeting for alleged possession of a handgun with an altered serial number...
...resident of the neighborhood. President Nixon called the shooting a "senseless thing" and praised Stennis as "the most indispensable" of all the Senators in helping achieve "the honorable peace" in Viet Nam. He said the weapon used apparently was a .22-cal. "Saturday night special," the kind of cheap handgun that the Senate last year voted to ban. (The bill died because the House did not agree.) Nixon said he was asking Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to work out a new gun-control bill with better prospects of passing...