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...light weight. After purchasing some bullets and receiving the appropriate eye and ear protection, we made our way though a set of double doors and into the range. There were about three people shooting when we entered. One was a middle-aged man who was shooting an automatic handgun while wearing a holster with two guns strapped to his waist. The others were a younger couple in their mid-twenties, who must have been on a date, as the guy was “helping” the girl...
...only a misdemeanor to leave a loaded gun accessible to a child. She started attending gun-control rallies and was host at meetings in her home. After she showed up with a TV news crew at a local Republican fund raiser that was raffling off a 9-mm handgun, Price gained the attention of other local media and legislators...
...testimony before the Maryland legislature helped push through a new law that requires trigger locks and a firearms-safety course for all new handgun owners. When the measure was signed into law last week, President Clinton traveled to Annapolis to praise the Prices' efforts...
After reading statistics from several studies on violence in schools, Wahl founded Youth at Harvard Against Handgun Violence (YHAHV), an organization that focuses on the political aspects of gun control...
Wahl also says he hopes his efforts will inspire action from other Harvard students--and that, with the growth of YHAHV and other gun control groups across the nation, what Wahl calls the current "alienation and apathy" toward the issues of handgun violence will change...