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Originally appeared in Newsletter
Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1999
Guns should be registered (Clinton). Guns should be licensed (Gore). President Clinton said Americans should be required to register guns as they do cars, but the president said he is not proposing mandatory registration, because he believes Congress (read the NRA) won't accept it. He said most Americans would support such a move, "but they elected the Congress, and the Congress doesn't have that opinion."
Al Gore, on the campaign trail, proposed a nationwide licensing system that would require safety checks and photo ID's for all gun buyers. "Unless you obtain a license, pass a background check and pass a gun safety test, you could not buy a handgun. Not in a gun shop, not at a gun show, not on a street corner, not anywhere in America." Bill Bradley, Gore's competitor for the Democratic nomination has been a step ahead of Gore in putting out a broad gun control plan of his own. He proposed not only testing and licensing but also registering all of the nation's millions of handguns.
"Thirteen states --California is not one of them-- now have some form of gun-permit or licensing system in place, although standards vary widely," said Handgun Control president Bob Walker. "It is virtually assured that whoever the Democratic nominee is, they'll be running on a strong gun-safety platform." In the coming election gun control is predicted to be one the major defining issues.
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