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Example sentences for: handgun

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"It is not known, however, whether the 17-year-old perpetrator possessed the handgun used in the crime," concedes the NRA.
"Today's Papers" received a number of sage emails from readers pointing out an oops in yesterday's column: California's gun control climate wasn't affected by the Brady bill because it already had in place a much stricter waiting-and-checking statute covering handgun purchases.
so maybe what this country also needs is for more politicians to have family members who can't get drug rehabilitation treatment or day care or who end up on the wrong end of a handgun.
A Newsweek poll finds that 74 percent of Americans support registering all handgun owners; 93 percent favor a mandatory waiting period for gun purchases.
The NYT story adds a White House-supplied stat that fleshes out the public housing angle: Typically, more than 70 percent of the 500 murders occurring annually in the nation's 100 largest housing projects are committed with a handgun.