Word: allowed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pieces of federal legislation can make a difference right now. First, we must require a national waiting period before the purchase of a handgun, to allow for a criminal-records check. Police know that waiting periods work. In the 20 years that New Jersey has required a background check, authorities have stopped more than 10,000 convicted felons from purchasing handguns...
...group as wantonly indifferent to public safety, the N.R.A. has found itself repeatedly battling police organizations, whose leaders complain that they are being outgunned by gangs and drug dealers. In 1988 it suffered its first statewide referendum loss. Maryland voters that year refused to repeal a law that would allow the banning of some kinds of handguns. This was despite an N.R.A. campaign that cost $6.6 million, nine times as much as the opposition spent...
...then flying on to Moscow or the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Many of those who landed in Moscow huddled around the building that houses Armenia's representational office, transforming the quiet street into an encampment of shock, grief and rage. As a refugee put it, "What civilized country would allow its own people to be murdered...
...There are laws in Massachusetts prohibiting private parties from discriminating against an individual based on the individual's point of view," Deale said. "Either Harvard can allow HRAAA to include its own statement with the ballot...
...most councillors said they preferred to take the risks an appeal might entail, rather than allow the city to lose rent-controlled apartments...