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...Senate, he voted against safety locks,the assault-weapons ban and closing the gun-show loophole. The National Rifle Association has been one of his strongest financial backers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: Confirmation Fight | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Gun Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: Confirmation Fight | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...gave Bush his presidency in a way that left many black Americans feeling that their voices and their votes did not count. Now the President who promised to be a uniter, not a divider, faces opposition to Ashcroft from virtually every liberal interest group: feminists, greens, gay-rights and gun-control advocates and, above all, civil rights organizations that charge Ashcroft with exploiting race for political gain throughout his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: The Fight for Justice | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...nation's top lawyer and top cop, the Attorney General oversees an enormous network of law-enforcement officers and attorneys, supervising the FBI, the INS, the DEA, the Witness Protection Program and the U.S. Marshals. As chief attorney, he prosecutes everything from tax fraud to money laundering to illegal gun sales to patent violations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: Confirmation Fight | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...gun fanatic, Rivas named his dogs Ruger and Beretta. His previous robberies exhibited the meticulous planning expected of a sometime engineering student at the University of Texas in El Paso. Rivas would use disguises and lies to gain entrance to stores, often posing as a security guard or a store employee. Until the murder of the policeman last month, he never resorted to bloodshed--just psychological violence. Rivas would tell store employees, for example, that he knew their car licenses and could track them down if they gave the police too much information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's The Scariest Of The Connally Seven? | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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