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...weight of public opinion and Democratic political attacks, and the measure, already approved by the House, passed in the Senate by a voice vote nearly seven years after it was first introduced. The legislation will impose a five-day waiting period so background checks can be made on handgun purchasers. Senate minority leader Bob Dole objected to a provision calling for the waiting period to remain in place for five years; he wanted to eliminate the waiting period as soon as a computerized checking system was up and running. In the end Dole retreated, accepting a promise that his modification...
...United States Senate would have made our nation's founders turn in their graves this month. The Brady Bill, a modest gun control measure that mandates a five-day waiting period before any handgun purchase, was the topic of heated debate. After hours of Republican filibustering, it finally passed...
Inside the hideout were a loaded .45 automatic handgun, a .32 revolver, plastic masks, wigs and fake mustaches and beard, burglary devices, ski hats, latex gloves and "a scanner to monitor police transmission and a book to help decode them," according to the Globe report...
...Brady gun-control bill passed the House by a vote of 238 to 189. A diluted version of the original bill, it requires a five-day wait and a mandatory background check for the purchase of a handgun. The Senate may vote on a similar measure this week after acting on a broader anti-crime bill. The Brady bill passed in the House in 1991 but then fell victim to an 11-month Senate filibuster...
...long-awaited action was passage of the Brady Bill (named for the presidential press secretary who was disabled by gunfire during the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan), which requires handgun purchasers to wait for a background check before taking possession of the weapon. After six years of debate and false starts, the House passed the bill by a vote of 238 to 189. A day earlier, by a 99 to 1 vote, the Senate had made it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to sell handguns to minors or for minors to possess them under...