Word: virginia
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...last moment to haunt him yet again. The Armed Services Committee had scheduled a vote for Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
...first game of basketball was played on December 21, 1891, and December has proved to be THE month of upsets in college basketball. On December 23, 1982, the biggest upset in college basketball history occured when Chaminade, a small Hawaiian school of 900 students, defeated then top-ranked Virginia...
...interstate highways. Federal law strictly limits the resale of weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...
...York and Massachusetts have waiting periods of several weeks on gun purchases. That gives authorities time to check buyers for a criminal record and makes it harder for miscreants to get weapons. Not so in Texas or many parts of the South, such as Florida, South Carolina and Virginia, where customers need only show a driver's license or other form of identification that certifies them as state residents...
That kind of ID is easily forged by out-of-state buyers. "People come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more...