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...recalls, "he was good. Every day he did not stay in the room. He came only in the nighttime." Bhakta charged $35 a night; Ferguson stayed three weeks. In retrospect, all he really needed was 15 days -- the time it took to clear his application to buy the 9-mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun he used last week on a rush-hour commuter train in New York...
Clinton could act more easily against foreign-made assault weapons. In July, after a deranged California man used three 9-mm semiautomatic weapons made in China to kill eight people in a San Francisco law firm, the President suspended imports of semiautomatic assault pistols. By law, he could ban the imports entirely, as George Bush did with larger assault rifles after another California man used one to spray a schoolyard in 1989. In spite of these measures, law-enforcement authorities report a sizable increase in imported firearms recently, especially from China and former Soviet bloc nations seeking to keep their...
Clinton was motivated to address the problem of handgun violence in part because of a gruesome incident on New Yorks Long Island Rail Road in which an evidently deranged man wielding a 9-mm pistol killed five commuters and wounded 18 others. The assailant, Colin Ferguson of Brooklyn, is black; he carried notes that told of his hatred of whites, Asians and "Uncle Tom" Negroes...
...when he ran out of bullets and had to reload his 9-mm semiautomatic Ruger for a second time, the passengers saw their chance. Two men huddled in the doorway looked at each other, looked at the killer and said, "Let's get him." A third joined in as they sprinted down the aisle, lunged forward and pinned Ferguson back against a seat, then ripped the gun away. By the time the death train pulled into the station at Garden City, Long Island, passengers were caring for one another, turning neckties into tourniquets. The killer was subdued...
...should make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon -- the deterrent approach. The District of Columbia has enacted a handgun ban -- but some residents think that may bring new dangers. "I live close to D.C.," says Rafael Escalera, 24, as he buys more bullets for his 9-mm Taurus, "and I've heard people say they would rather rob someone in D.C. than in Maryland because they don't have weapons...