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...competition. Last week the ban seemed still more illusory. The | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced that it could not prevent imports of guns like AK-47s if they were redesigned to remove military-style features such as large-capacity magazines, flash suppressors and bayonets. Such changes may make the rifles less deadly, but buyers can turn the guns into people killers with easy-to-get kits. Manufacturers, says Josh Sugarmann, director of the Firearms Policy Project, have "left the guts of an assault weapon." Imports of modified rifles have not begun, but one company plans to start soon...
Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach. They not only passed the strictest anti- abortion law adopted by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
...this the age of shameless self-promotion, Supreme Court nominee David Souter comes onto the national stage as an oddity. No one knows quite what to make of a man who has a life, not a life-style, who lives modestly, works hard, spends inconspicuously, attends church, enjoys solitude, honors his mother, and helps his neighbors. While part of being a public official these days is vying for an appearance on Nightline, Souter is extremely publicity shy, pursuing a life of quiet introspection...
That philosophy led Hager to seek Souter's aid when she wanted to kill a parental-consent bill in the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1981. In response, he wrote a letter to lawmakers opposing the bill because it would have required judges to make "fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people without any standards to guide the individual judge." Last week, as Sununu was hinting to right-to-lifers that Souter could be trusted, Hager was busy allaying the fears of members of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Hager kept repeating, "He has never associated...
...stories in his strong New England accent. Says Levine: "No one I've ever met is more fun at a party; he has that British satirical sense of humor, does wonderful impressions." That hardly qualifies him as a party animal, but it may have contributed to his failure to make law review...