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...week's end Bill Clinton, who had been supportive but wary about gun control, made his first choice. One day after directing the Justice Department to examine the possibility of a national registration and licensing system for handgun owners, he told Attorney General Janet Reno to draw up a detailed plan. One likely model is the method for licensing drivers, in which states operate a system with federal standards. "I think it should be at least as hard to get a license to possess a gun," said Reno, "as it is to drive an automobile." It's a good deal...
...waiting for the information to come online. "We do not have to live with this insanity," the New York Democrat said last week as he unveiled the gun-control package he plans to submit to Congress in January. The bill, which has the backing of Sarah Brady's Handgun Control Inc., would require all handgun buyers to be licensed and to possess a renewable national handgun card, which would be issued only after a thorough background check. To put a squeeze on gunrunners, it would limit purchases to one a month. To discourage illicit resales, it would require that...
...control. "The Second Amendment is about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...
Outright prohibition -- at least of handguns -- is exactly what some people have in mind. Rhode Island Senator John Chafee has twice introduced a bill to ban their sale, manufacture and possession. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy...
...handgun ban is the atomic weapon of gun control, it also inspires the same reluctance to use it; for most Americans, it seems too radical a step. Even Handgun Control Inc. shies away from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before...