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There are now an estimated 40 million handguns in the U.S., and the total is increasing by 2.5 million a year. The result has been carnage. Handguns are the weapons in more than half of the murders committed in the U.S. According to U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, about one of every four aggravated assaults and one of every three robberies involves a pistol...
State and local laws have been as ineffective as the federal statutes. According to Levi, only two states-New York and Massachusetts-have "tough" gun-control statutes. The first case under Massachusetts' new law, which went into effect on April 1, was decided last week when Calvin Hebert, 18, was found guilty of carrying a rifle without a permit. If Hebert's appeal is turned down, he would be subject to the one-year mandatory jail sentence the new law imposes on all offenders, even transients with guns registered in states other than Massachusetts...
...orphans. U.S. federal law limits the total of Vietnamese immigrants to 20,000 annually, and it is not known how much that will be enlarged. But President Ford declared that red tape would be cut to ease the entry of orphans. To do that, said Attorney General Edward Levi, he would invoke his statutory "parole power" to admit 1,500 orphans right away; more will undoubtedly be let in later. Under the Attorney General's parole power, 31,000 Hungarian refugees entered the U.S. in the 1950s, and some 600,000 Cubans were absorbed after the Castro revolution...
...statistics tell only part of the story. The Justice Department calculates that about one-third of all violent crimes go unreported, an estimate that some legal experts think is far too low. Attorney General Edward H. Levi pessimistically terms the increase "predictable" and calls for greater attention to the deterrence of criminal acts. As a first step, Levi called for a new federal gun-control law that would ban possession of hand guns on the streets of high crime cities...
...Levi also said the committee's case would center on showing work-related "hazards and dangers" unique to clerical and technical personnel in the Medical Area