Word: rodino
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...police officers, who had traditionally been allied with the N.R.A., see weaker gun controls as an increased threat to their lives. Pointing to the police in the galleries, Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, a longtime gun foe, declared, "They are here because they recognize that there were 700 or so killed in the last decade (by handguns), and they wonder whether or not they might be next." Only a day after the House action, two FBI agents were killed and five others wounded in Miami as they tried to question two bank robbery suspects who turned on them with...
...highly motivated minority that outguns its opponents out of all proportion to public opinion on this issue. But the vote last week in the House actually represents some old fashioned horse trading and some setbacks for the NRA, much of it thanks to the efforts of Rep. Peter Rodino (D-N.J.), chairman of the Criminal Justice Subcommittee...
...Rodino has been fighting the decontrol bill all along, and pushing his own bill to tighten restrictions. For Rodino, as for most law enforcement officials, the crucial issue is restricting handguns--as opposed to rifles and shotguns--as well as ending the insanity known as machine gun rental, available since...
House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino has introduced a bill mandating a waiting period. The NRA opposes it, claiming that the public would be better served by McClure-Volkmer. As the NRA applies pressure to representatives, let us hope that congressmen have the courage and vision to accept the NRA for what it is--a narrow special interest which seeks to benefit gun dealers and users with little regard for the public welfare...
...recommendations immediately stirred a fire storm of controversy. Said Representative Peter Rodino, a New Jersey Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee: "Wholesale testing is unwarranted and raises serious civil liberty concerns." Agreed Democratic Representative Charles Schumer of New York: "Trying to stop organized crime's multimillion-dollar drug business by creating a police state in federal office buildings would be virtually ineffective and would create one crime to stop another...