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...weapon is likely to be outlawed entirely it is the handgun. The U.S. Mayors Conference last week recommended that its ownership be banned for all but law-enforcement officials. Japan, with 100 million people, allows only 100 of them to own pistols, for shooting matches. Britain authorizes their use on pistol ranges and almost nowhere else. But in the U.S., 70% of shooting deaths are caused by handguns. Often the weapon is a cheap, .22-cal. import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number...
...Austin slaughter breathed new life into a bill now before Congress, sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, which would 1) severely limit interstate mail-order handgun shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified...
Almost as light as a highball tumbler, silent as a hummingbird's flight-yet with twice the wallop of a .45-the Gyrojet rocket handgun sounds like the secret agent's dream. Costing only $1 to massproduce, with a mechanism so simple and rugged that it can be fired under water and requires practically no maintenance, the gun-as advertised-could prove an equally deadly weapon for combat troops...
This puzzled me; it seemed out of character with the man as you described him-a pragmatic, intensely curious intellectual. It was not out of character that he should carry a handgun, but that he should prefer an automatic pistol to a revolver. Knowing your reputation for accurate reporting, I decided you must be correct, though most outdoorsmen prefer revolvers. They are safer; a variety of loads and bullet shapes can be fired through them, including shot cartridges, for use against snakes...