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...Church in Denver got an unusual proposal last year from their pastor. If they would turn in their guns, the Rev. Marshall Gourley told them, he would give $100 for each of them. Tired of officiating at the funerals of shooting victims, the priest has mounted a crusade against handgun violence...
...mean streets they are known as "strawberries," young women, usually prostitutes, who trade sex for drugs. Since August 1985 police have discovered the bodies of at least nine strawberries; each woman had been shot to death with a small-caliber handgun. Last week lawmen found a suspect in the serial killings. In a twist right out of a lurid TV movie, he turned out to be a sheriff's deputy...
...trunk of Ross's car, officers discovered a handgun that matched the weapon used in three of the strawberry murders...
...exchange of hard looks in a Woodbridge, Va., high school corridor ended when a visiting teenager shot a student in the groin. A man who was asked to leave a sweet-16 party took his revenge by spraying a New York City subway platform with a 9-mm automatic handgun, wounding...
...firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through the handgun industry's pocketbooks what has not been done through their consciences...