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The group will file suits against handgun makers, importers, and distributors to force gun companies to market their products more carefully.
President Clinton proposed new federal gun control legislation . It would raise the legal age for handgun possession to 21, prohibit juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons, require trigger locks, make parents criminally liable for "knowingly or recklessly" giving their kids access to guns used to kill or injure, and extend background checks to gun show patrons and people who try to buy explosives.
The Los Angeles Times leads with something far more lethal than a hurricane: a semi-automatic handgun.
Even though handgun deaths are actually down a bit from the early '90s, says a piece in Sunday's NYT "Week in Review," recent well-publicized shootings tend to stimulate lawful gun purchases for household protection, which may be bad news for those households, since according to one quoted expert, "the odds that a home will be the scene of a homicide are substantially greater if there is a gun in the home."
A Seattle workplace massacre is fronted by USAT and reefered by the LAT and Post . The gunman wore fatigues to a shipyard and shot four people with a 9mm handgun, killing two.