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Representative Charles Schumer isn't waiting for the information to come online. "We do not have to live with this insanity," the New York Democrat said last week as he unveiled the gun-control package he plans to submit to Congress in January. The bill, which has the backing of Sarah Brady's Handgun Control Inc., would require all handgun buyers to be licensed and to possess a renewable national handgun card, which would be issued only after a thorough background check. To put a squeeze on gunrunners, it would limit purchases to one a month. To discourage illicit resales...
With the Brady Bill soon to be law, the next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers...
Liberals did find some things to cheer, however, such as the more holistic approach to drug offenders. "If you have mandatory drug treatment in the prisons, you can get a lot done," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer. "You say to criminals, 'You're not getting out of jail till you're drug- free.' " Others applauded the $100 million in grants to schools to develop anticrime programs, and the idea of sending young, first-time offenders to boot camps, where they get heavy discipline and a second chance, rather than sending them to jail for their graduate training in criminal...
...expansion of community policing, the obstacle was not political but financial. "It's only fair," said New York's Schumer of the proposal to fund 50,000 new police officers. "If Kansas gets wheat subsidies, we should get cop subsidies," he told the New York Daily News, though there was no guarantee in the package that big cities would have first claim on the new police officers...
...vote, the Supreme Court last week rejected that argument. The decision will result in more activism by Operation Rescue. "God be praised," said leader Randall Terry. "The most potent weapon the child killers had against us was the illegal use of the federal judiciary." Pro-choice Representative Charles Schumer and Senator Edward Kennedy immediately proposed bills making it a federal crime to block abortion clinics...