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• Taking Guns to Canada? Beware! Tough new Canadian gun control laws apply to visitors as well as residents. From your About Guide.
• Gun law fiasco With their defiance of draconian gun restrictions, Canadians and Californians are busily demonstrating that laws are enforceable only when people want to abide by them. From J.D. Tuccille, your Civil Liberties Guide.
More Gun Control News From All Over
- Mass.
bills aim for tough gun laws (Boston Globe, Jan. 25, 2001)
A month after a massacre at a Wakefield office, two gun-control advocates in the Legislature said they see growing momentum to pass several bills that would make the state's toughest-in-the-nation gun laws even stricter. - Ashcroft's
NRA Membership Under Attack (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 25, 2001)
"Gun-control advocates are calling on Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft to relinquish his National Rifle Association membership," - Warriors
and Weapons (FrontPage.com, Jan. 26, 2001)
"There I was, sitting in my easy chair, eating chicken soup and watching television. Suddenly, I saw an immense pile of guns, thousands of them, being bulldozed into a metal crusher." - Michigan
group petitions to stop concealed weapons law (Detroit Free Press,
Jan. 24, 2001)
A Michigan group is petitioning to block the state's new concealed weapons gun law by putting the measure before voters in a 2002 referendum. - Massachusetts's
Gun Laws Take Heavy Toll on Sales (Washington Post, Jan. 24, 2001)
Licensed Dealers Dwindle as More Controls Are Proposed
Hundreds of California gun owners are taking their assault-style weapons out of state or putting them in hiding to avoid a registration deadline that took effect Jan 1.
A law requiring gun buyers in Los Angeles to first be fingerprinted advanced Monday even as the measure was targeted by gun merchants and the National Rifle Assn.
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