Oct 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
According to an August 30 -September 2 WASHINGTON POST-ABC News Poll of 1,526 randomly selected adults, 63 percent of the people favor stricter gun control laws in the United States, 35 percent oppose them, and two percent had no opinion. According to the survey, 90...
Sep 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
In a bi-partisan move, Reps. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois and Clifford Stearns of Florida introduced H. R. 2732, the proposed National Instant Notification System Act of 1999. If enacted, it would require that state and local law enforcement authorities and the Bureau...
Aug 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
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....
Jul 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
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,...
Jun 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
“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 1, 1999 | Quick Shots
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,...
