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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainstream press, are surprising. During the period of the sharpest decline in the number of dealers--between 1993 and 1996--overall U.S. pistol production fell nearly 60%, from 2.3 million to just under 1 million. Manufacturers of expensive, well-crafted guns reported only moderate decreases in production. Smith & Wesson, for example, actually saw its production of pistols rise more than 40% between 1993 and 1994, before its sales too began falling. Lorcin, by contrast, reported an immediate decline. In 1993 it produced 341,243 cheap pistols and became for that year the leading pistol producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing Out The Bad Guys | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...launched a formal undercover investigation and on Thursday, July 1, executed a search warrant at Fiessinger's apartment, where agents found 27 guns and rudimentary sales records. Among the names of customers was Benjamin Smith. At the time, the name meant nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeezing Out The Bad Guys | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

William Kennedy Smith 1960- --Co-founded Physicians Against Land Mines, which helps victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...sorts. The "of sorts" refers to the fact that we don't really have anything to bring back, or, in the Latin, "naissance." But now we've got Lauryn Hill singing about her hometown, South Orange, and The Sopranos celebrating our family values, and New Jersey movie director Kevin Smith causing problems for both the Roman Catholic Church and Disney. There are even I LOVE NJ T shirts for sale at Newark Airport. I know airports in every state have those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Sing the New Jersey Electric | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...river, these two behave toward each other with the casual care of brothers; they intuit each other's presence, but they rarely speak, except in a code born of their joint mission and of the fact that "we talk 10 times a day." One will say, "Smith called. He didn't like what we wrote." The other will say, "Did you read what the EPA said yesterday... Once they acknowledge that, they're screwed." I have no idea what they're talking about, but everything has the tone of frontline bulletins. Standing beside Kennedy near the bow, I realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Water: Let Rivers Run Deep | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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