Word: limiters
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...changing leadership, including a new police chief, district attorney and candidates in upcoming mayoral and city council elections, will help limit any possible backlash so "isolated incidents of violence," Oh said...
Revelations that weapons from Virginia were flooding Washington, D.C. and New York streets prompted Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder to action. He proposed a bill that would limit an individual to one handgun purchase per month--with a waiver for serious collectors. It seems a matter of common sense; why would an individual need more than 12 handguns a year...
...control measures they oppose seem eminently reasonable. Yet painting the NRA as a collection of fanatics and kooks, though very tempting--and kinda fun--is not accurate or productive. NRA members believe they are fighting for the constitutionally protected right to gun ownership. They will meet any attempt to limit that right with quick suspicion and hostility...
Currently, the fastest modems that can be hooked up to ordinary phone lines (as opposed to dedicated data lines) process up to 28,800 bits of uncompressed data per second, a speed that is pushing the physical limit on the metal wires and one HASCS is not about to support any time soon...
Sensing the change, politicians of both parties have felt it easier to buck the gun lobby -- especially since the NRA seldom budges from its never-give- an-inch credo. The New Jersey defeat came just three weeks after Virginia, an NRA stronghold, adopted a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases. The aim was to discourage bulk buyers who had turned the state into a firepower exporter to street criminals everywhere. "People recognize that this random gun violence is out of control," says Susan Whitmore, communications director of Handgun Control, a lobbying group. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have...