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...once bulletproof NRA is meeting some effective return fire...
Until a few weeks ago, the National Rifle Association's well-planned ambush of New Jersey seemed as if it might succeed. The specific target was the state's three-year-old ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons. Relentless lobbying and fistfuls of NRA campaign money appeared to have done the job. Never mind that polls showed 80% of New Jersey residents in favor of the ban -- both houses of the state legislature voted last summer to repeal most of , it. When Democratic Governor Jim Florio vetoed their action, the assembly voted in February to override. The senate was expected...
...NRA, which used to have little organized opposition, now faces a coalescing counterlobby. In the cities and suburbs, where muggings and carjackings are a daily concern, voters are wondering how many of the nation's 200 million guns are pointed at them. Or at their children. In Los Angeles schools last year 405 guns were confiscated -- 28 of them in elementary schools. In Louisiana and Texas more people now die from gunshot wounds than from car accidents...
Sensing the change, politicians of both parties have felt it easier to buck the gun lobby -- especially since the NRA seldom budges from its never-give- an-inch credo. The New Jersey defeat came just three weeks after Virginia, an NRA stronghold, adopted a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases. The aim was to discourage bulk buyers who had turned the state into a firepower exporter to street criminals everywhere. "People recognize that this random gun violence is out of control," says Susan Whitmore, communications director of Handgun Control, a lobbying group. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have...
...four block-long ACT-UP rally marches down Chestnut Street, and both demonstrators and cops are uniformed in black leather jackets. A sign above a parking garage has a 1-800 number for NRA Whitetail Tours. Harry's Auto Parts boasts "Everyone Has Their Priorities and You're Ours...