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Could this be the year when the gun-control tide finally began to turn? First peaceful Morton Grove, Ill, enacted a ban on handguns, then Chicago passed a handgun freeze prohibiting new registrations. Last week San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed an ordinance making it illegal to carry or even keep a handgun at home. Handgun owners (the military and armored-vehicle drivers, among others, are exempted) have until the end of October to either get their weapons out of the city or store them permanently at a licensed shooting range. The maximum sentence: six months in jail...
...press secretary. ". . . On count ten, not guilty by reason of insanity." For the bullet into the neck of Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. Judge Parker's voice, usually calm and assured, began to quaver. ". . . On count twelve, not guilty by reason of insanity"-for the illegal possession of the handgun bought for $47 in a Dallas pawnshop. And finally, for using that gun in a federal crime: "Not guilty by reason of insanity...
Jerome S. Fortinsky '83, head of the Harvard Coalition on Handgun Control, said yesterday that supporting groups estimate they are within two votes needed for passage...
Bills requiring a ban on handguns have been introduced every year for the past several sessions and each has been soundly defeated. But supporters give Bachrach's bill a better chance because it only restricts one type of handgun...
Several others advocated gun control at the hearings, which lasted more than five hours, including leaders of the two main national organizations favoring gun control--Handgun Control, Inc, and National Coalition to Ban Handguns...