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...even in deer-hunting country -- the Milwaukee Yellow Pages lists more than 30 taxidermists -- attitudes are shifting. Wisconsin passed a mandatory criminal background check on handgun buyers in 1991, and Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly...
...Milwaukee Journal poll last April, 65% of city residents favored a ban on handguns and assault weapons. "In this climate it's actually possible that a handgun ban might pass in Milwaukee," says Mayor John Norquist, a Democrat. "I'll vote for it, even though it won't do much." Norquist prefers strict liability laws for manufacturers, more gun controls and tougher sentences for gun violations. "The Brady bill is an important first step," he says. "I'm encouraged because guns are becoming unfashionable, even creepy...
Certainly they are losing some of their luster in Milwaukee. Since October local activists have held prayer vigils at the sites of recent homicides. Last Thursday more than 500 residents gathered for a two-day seminar on youth violence, some sporting red anti-handgun buttons. "We have to take steps to stop these guns from pouring into our communities," said Attorney General - Doyle, addressing the crowd. Banners listed the names of youths killed in the past four years -- kids like Kendra Miles, 15, shot in the chest in October, allegedly by a 14-year-old boy while standing...
...good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days -- the time it took to clear his application to buy the 9-mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun he used last week on a rush-hour commuter train in New York...
...head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis and was due to report for duty as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. He shot himself in the right temple with a 9-mm Ruger handgun after apparently using the same weapon to kill Grizzard and O'Neill...