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REAGAN'S CONVERSION was a pleasant surprise for those who wish to limit the availability of guns. For hardcore NRA members, it was nothing less than a betrayal. One of the latter suffered a disappointment of Biblical proportions, quoting to The New York Times the 146th Psalm on the unreliability of "princes." Another expressed his sense of abandonment thusly: "He's just another politician after all...there was a feelingthat he was a cut above the average politician...
...immediate prospects of the bill's passing are quite good. Several important foes of gun control, including Les AuCoin (R--Oregon), rallying to its support. Even the White House, with lifetime NRA member George Bush at the helm, is said to be rejoicing at the opportunity to support the bill, under the cover of Reagan and within the framework of Bush's own crime bill...
California outlawed the purchase of semiautomatic guns as of Jan. 1, 1990, but those acquired before June 1989 could be kept if they were registered. The law seemed a big defeat for the NRA, as did a subsequent ruling by Federal Judge Edward Dean Price in Fresno. Dismissing the NRA challenge, Price ruled that the Constitution permits each state to impose its own restrictions on gun ownership. However, even though police may now seize the unregistered guns and charge their owners with a felony carrying up to a year in prison, the NRA may still win a victory by default...
...accorded this post Cabinet status, but doesn't even allow Bennett to attend Cabinet meetings. He banned the import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...
Outside of such domestic accidents, there are plenty of other examples where handguns have not been used by law-abiding citizens acting in self-defense, but rather for far more malicious purposes which the NRA would rather not talk about. Several times this winter, Boston police were fatally shot or wounded during drug busts, or just while sitting in their squad cars...