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- <text id=92TT1842>
- <title>
- Aug. 17, 1992: Ready, Aim . . .
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 17, 1992 The Balkans: Must It Go On?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- SOCIETY
- Ready, Aim...</hdr><body>
- <p>New Jersey's G.O.P. legislators riddle a Democratic Governor's
- gun ban
- </p>
- <p> In the nine months since Republicans gained control of both
- houses of the New Jersey legislature, they have held open
- season on the laws passed by their Democratic predecessors under
- the leadership of Governor Jim Florio. Among the latest to fall
- was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on
- military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be
- veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and
- possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns--though not,
- even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis and AK-47s.
- </p>
- <p> The Republicans, whose electoral victory was aided by
- strong financial support from the National Rifle Association and
- its state affiliate, called the repeal an "anticrime" measure
- because it included increased penalties for some gun offenses.
- It amounts to nothing more than "a bald attempt" to fool the
- people, retorted an angry Florio, who intends to take the issue
- to the people in a referendum campaign if his veto does not
- stick.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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