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- <text id=91TT2270>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: American Notes:Weapons
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- WEAPONS
- High-Caliber Reading
- </hdr><body>
- <p> What is the perfect gift for a high-caliber woman? Perhaps a
- subscription to Women & Guns, a new publication put out by the
- nonprofit Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Wash. Says
- Sonny Jones, editor of the female-staffed monthly: "I don't want
- to encourage women to buy guns but to promote training and
- education for those who already have them."
- </p>
- <p> There would seem to be a large potential audience.
- According to a 1988 Gallup poll, 15.6 million American women own
- a rifle, shotgun or handgun. The latest issue includes feature
- stories on fashionable holster bags and how to choose a .38
- Special revolver. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, have gone
- ballistic about the new magazine. Says Susan Witmore of Handgun
- Control Inc. in Washington: "It is published by a gun lobby and
- designed to prey on the legitimate fears of women, saying, in
- effect, that their only protection is a gun."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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