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...CONTROL Worked for passage of the assault-weapons ban and of the Brady bill, which imposes waiting periods and background checks on handgun purchases. Wants to ban gun sales to convicted spouse abusers...
...these episodes happening now? Partly because the defeats on same-sex marriage and workplace discrimination raised bitter questions about whether closeted gay lawmakers were guilty of hypocrisy. "If Sarah Brady owned a handgun, would you write about it?" asks Frank, who tumbled out of the closet years ago. Thus Arthur Finkelstein, the mastermind behind the campaigns of antigay conservatives, was outed last month by Boston magazine. And there is the ever more permeable barrier between public discourse and the upwardly churning tides of gossip. At the Washington headquarters of the gay G.O.P. organization Log Cabin Republicans, executive director Richard Tafel...
Dodd replied that the Clinton-backed Brady bill, which imposes waiting periods for handgun purchases, has helped reduce the nation's crime rate by 9 percent...
There were hints of trouble. Pleasant ran unsuccessfully for a state senate seat in 1994, and the man who beat him, John Kaites, says Pleasant pulled out a .45-cal. handgun during a meeting and put it on the table. "The guy had too many screws loose to have a sincere conversation," says Kaites...
...Robert De Niro. Now Hollywood is worried that he may instead become the next River Phoenix. Stopped by police as he sped through Malibu in his truck last weekend, Downey was found to be carrying a small pharmacy of illegal drugs--crack, heroin--and, police said, a heavy-duty handgun. The hard-partying actor has been through rehab at least once since the late 1980s, but friends recently became alarmed at his downward spiral. A few weeks ago, Sean Penn and Matthew Modine arrived at Downey's L.A. home to attempt a rescue mission. "Sean told Robert he had better...