Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it is necessary to discount such hysteria and maintain a sound historical perspective, it is still obvious that the U.S. must have gun legislation. Though states and localities have a bewildering crazy quilt of 20,000 weapon laws, only two are on the federal books. One is the National Firearms Act of 1934, taxing interstate shipments of such gangster-style weapons as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing...
...fear that the Government will end all private ownership of firearms underlies the N.R.A.'s opposition to registration of any weapons. The organization's officials argue that once local police were empowered to reject applicants for a permit to own a weapon, they would do so capriciously or on the basis of personal or political prejudice. Not surprisingly, such Negro militants as California's Black Panthers are dead set against gun registration, maintaining that it would be used to disarm them. Similarly, the New Left newspaper, the Guardian, has declared its opposition to "restrictions on weapons which would deprive sections...
...doubt the antigun advocates, too, sometimes go beyond what is reasonable or at least practical. Some urge complete confiscation. "I see no reason," says University of Chicago Sociologist Morris Janowitz, "why anyone in a democracy should own a weapon...
...weapon is likely to be outlawed entirely it is the handgun. The U.S. Mayors Conference last week recommended that its ownership be banned for all but law-enforcement officials. Japan, with 100 million people, allows only 100 of them to own pistols, for shooting matches. Britain authorizes their use on pistol ranges and almost nowhere else. But in the U.S., 70% of shooting deaths are caused by handguns. Often the weapon is a cheap, .22-cal. import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number...
Someone Named Joe. By then the snub-nosed Iver Johnson eight-shot revolver, model 55 SA?a relatively cheap weapon that retails for $31.95?was yielding information. The serial number had been registered with the State Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau. Within minutes, the bureau's computer system came up with the pistol's original purchaser: Albert L. Hertz of Alhambra. He had bought the gun for protection in August 1965, after the Watts riot. He informed police that he had subsequently given it to his daughter, Mrs. Robert Westlake, then a resident of Pasadena. Mrs. Westlake became uneasy...