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- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Gun Rationing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Gun Rationing
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- <body>
- <p> Virginians have been anxious to change their state image as
- the gunrunning capital of the East Coast and reduce the hauls
- taken in by police from the streets, such as these found in
- Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both
- chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun-control legislation
- last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the
- measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature
- that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider
- unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily
- be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should
- be enough for most amateur gun lovers, but not for the black-market
- professionals who have been buying weapons by the dozens and
- smuggling them into such crime-ridden cities as Washington,
- Baltimore, New York and Boston. As many as a quarter of New
- York City's handguns can be traced back to Virginia.
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- </body>
- </article>
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