Word: illicits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that already have a waiting period show that between 1% and 2% of prospective buyers are turned away. Under a nationwide system they would be prevented from making the buy in another state with no waiting period. But few criminals get their guns from ordinary shops. All over America, illicit gunrunners supply the streets. As he fills out the forms to buy a Beretta at the Maryland Small Arms Range in Upper Marlboro, customer Gary Roland complains that black-market buyers have a network all their own. "It's easier to get a firearm delivered in the Washington area than...
...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 all handgun transfers be registered with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which lightly oversees the gun trade...
...Lolita" is a fantastic film for moviegoers in any mood. Humbert and Lolita's illicit love is so riveting, it needs to be seen on the big screen. Bring a date...
Later in his life, a widowed Rubens abandoned his roles as diplomat and teacher, and settled down quietly with a second, younger wife, Helene Fourment. He said he fully intended to enjoy "the illicit pleasures of marriage." His sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling applications of paint, is a far cry from the violent and dramatic Prometheus. Illustrating an open-air party of fleshy, amorous aristocrats dressed in satin, Garden of Love is an obvious precursor of the eighteenth-century fete-champetre popularized by Rococco artists such as Watteau...
Isuppose we need a War on Drugs, because we've already got a nation on them. Everyone wishes illegal narcotics and the problems they create would return to the hole where they put the Pet Rock and breakdancing. But given the love for snorting, injecting, and smoking illicit substances into the national body, any abatement in American drug consumption seems unrealistic...