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After Detroit passed a city ordinance last year requiring handgun purchasers to take a four-hour, $60 safety course, the number of new permits issued dropped by almost half. Gun enthusiasts demanded an easier procedure, and that's just what they...
...N.R.A.'s air of invincibility was badly shaken last month when the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Brady bill. The gun lobby had orchestrated a massive campaign against the bill, which will require a seven-day waiting period for all handgun purchases. Now cities from Los Angeles to New York are monitoring the debate over the Chicago gun ban. Says Marshall Kandell, a spokesman for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles: "If the enforcement of a gun ban in the Chicago housing projects is successful, you can bet that the Los Angeles Housing...
Like rival gunfighters, the National Rifle Association and Handgun Control Inc. stalked each other for months. The contest hardly seemed equal: with 2.7 million members and an annual budget of $86 million, the giant N.R.A. seemed to tower over the bantamweight gun-control group, which has only 1 million members and a $6.5 million budget. But after the smoke cleared from last week's shootout on Capitol Hill, advocates of gun control had triumphed in a surprisingly lopsided 239-186 House vote for the so-called Brady bill...
...does not require identity checks and will not remove guns that are already in the hands of criminals, is a very limited piece of legislation. Said House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, a Washington State Democrat who did not vote on the gun-control issue last week: "I think all handgun- violence controls overpromise their results, without exception." But Brady's approval by the House represents a significant symbolic victory for the gun-control forces and shows that legislators are responding to the public's concerns about crime. Says Houston homicide division Captain Bill Edison, one of the many top police...
Advocates of gun control strongly back the so-called Brady bill, which allows for checks on the buyer's criminal and emotional history. The measure is named for former White House press secretary James S. Brady, who was disabled by a handgun fired at President Reagan in 1981. The National Rifle Association claims the law would deprive citizens of their right to bear arms...