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...black colleagues and driven away lying on the backseat of a car to avoid clusters of young men positioned around intersections hurling rocks and setting fires. Photographer Roger Sandler, roaming through a newly burned-out section of the city's Crenshaw district, had the business end of a pistol suddenly thrust in his face by one of a gang of teenagers bristling with weapons. Just as he lowered his camera, certain that they would fire, they quickly jumped back into their car and drove off. Jim Willwerth was watching a group of looters empty a sporting-goods store when...
...Robert Luongo, a Kennedy-assassination buff from Florida, it seemed only natural to tell a policeman that he had Jack Ruby's pistol in his suitcase as he strolled near the U.S. Capitol. But when Luongo offered to show the historic weapon to House Speaker Tom Foley a few moments later, the cop arrested Luongo...
...turned out that Luongo is an associate of Anthony Pugliese, the previously unidentified collector who bought the gun at auction last December for $220,000. Luongo had taken the pistol to Washington to display it on a cable-TV show about Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald...
Luongo may eventually stand trial for possession of an unlicensed handgun. The fate of Ruby's pistol also will be decided by the courts. Illegal or unlicensed weapons that are seized in Washington are usually melted down...
Absurdly easy to buy, guns become a teenage consumer's accessory -- a Raven P-25 pistol or a Smith & Wesson .38, like the one Sumpter allegedly used. That gun was stolen from the car of a campus police officer in New Jersey, police said. "Around here," James Sinkler says, "kids carry guns like other people carry cigarettes." Taking a life in medieval England was the King's prerogative. Now every kid a king...