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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In California, two attractive young San Franciscans named William and Louise Thoresen await trial next week on charges of possessing 70 tons of weapons and ammunition, including a 37-mm. cannon. On the national day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy, promoters of a Davenport, Iowa, pistol-shooting match decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Toothless Answer. Attempts to tighten the absurdly loose laws have repeatedly been defeated, largely due to the efforts of the 1,000,000-member National Rifle Association. Two years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Pollster George Gallup maintains that in his very first opinion sampling on gun control 34 years ago, 84% of the nation favored strong legislation. The figure has remained at or near that level ever since. Yet Congress has assiduously ignored such evidence of public opinion. John Kennedy's assassination did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Carloads of pro-control mail have cascaded into Washington. Senators whose mail had run 100-to-1 against gun laws now found the ratio reversed. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case alone has received 11,000 letters since Senator Kennedy's death, 400-to-1 in favor of strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

At least two dozen Congressmen are members, including Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper. N.R.A. has 182 "field representatives" working on legislation, not only in Washington but in 47 state capitals as well. Much of its $5,700,000 budget goes toward promoting such slogans as "Shooting Is Safe." Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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