TITLE

Giving Up on Gun Control

AUTHOR(S)
Schorr, Daniel
PUB. DATE
March 2001
SOURCE
New Leader;Mar/Apr2001, Vol. 84 Issue 2, p4
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Addresses the issues concerning gun control in the United States. Information on gun ban in 1968 after the assassination of political and religious leaders in the country; Laws which have been passed and implemented regarding the use and sale of guns; Views on how the administration under President George W. Bush treated the gun ban issue.
ACCESSION #
4331469

Tags: GUN control;  FIREARMS & crime;  BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-;  FIREARMS -- Law & legislation

 

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