AUGUST 1999

U. S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger told Congress that the Judicial Conference of the United States believes judges need changes in gun laws to protect themselves, particularly when traveling interstate, reports Frank J. Murray in THE WASHINGTON TIMES....

JULY 1999

Dennis Henigan of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, a sister organization of Handgun Control, Inc., “believes that it is imperative to steer the argument about guns away from the problematic area of criminal use, with its inconvenient focus on criminals,...

JUNE 1999

“The simple-minded will blame guns,” wrote nationally syndicated columnist Mona Charen in THE WASHINGTON TIMES and other newspapers following the tragic April murderous shooting and bombing outrage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado....

MAY 1999

When a federal judge in Lubbock, Texas early last month dismissed charges against a man for owning a gun while under a restraining order, legal experts said the development could be used to challenge gun control laws, reported the Associated Press. “If appealed,...

APRIL 1999

John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, noted in a recent nationally televised presentation that the theories underlying current third party lawsuits against firearms manufacturers and dealers could, if established in law and applied on a universal basis,...

MARCH 1999

Gun grabbing President Bill Clinton said in his February 6 national radio address that he would ask Congress to require background checks on all people who bought firearms at gun shows and flea markets, regardless of whether the sellers are commercial gun dealers....