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...vote, the House Judiciary Committee shot down a Democratic attempt to force a vote on the gun measures this week, opting instead to study the proposals first and aim for a vote in mid-July. Democrats accused the GOP of holding the proposals hostage to NRA demands for watered-down regulations...
...measure," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Republicans have handed the Democrats a great issue in the wake of Littleton." Though it?s no secret that both parties regularly cater to the special interest groups that back their elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they can. They have a raft...
...Senate Republican leaders finally realized they had handed the Democrats a choice issue," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They opted to play their base but they misread the current public mood." Ever since the Littleton massacre, the NRA and its allies in Congress have known that more gun control legislation was headed their way. The issue was how to deflect the effort without looking insensitive. "Republicans thought they could get some cover with their voluntary proposal," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "but it didn?t work." A big question now, says Dickerson, "is whether they will have...
...rift that has existed for years within the firearms community emerged into public view on Monday in the wake of President Clinton?s national meeting on youth violence and the Columbine High School tragedy. With the NRA still sticking to its absolutist antiregulatory position, two industry groups, the American Shooting Sports Council and the National Shooting Sports Council, came out in support of several proposals aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of children -- among them raising the age for legal possession from 18 to 21, holding parents criminally responsible for giving children access to guns, and requiring locks...
...Though the public at large may not be fully aware of it, ?many hunters and other gun owners have been at odds with the NRA for a long time,? says Goodgame. ?Whereas the NRA views any gun control as the beginning of a slippery slope that will lead to the taking of everyone?s guns by the government, many in the gun community don't agree, and support reasonable measures to keep guns away from children and criminals.? The Columbine tragedy has done much to bring this more flexible approach to the forefront, as concerned citizens on both sides...