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HANDGUNS - The New Yorker 1976 Article
HANDGUNS - The New Yorker 1976 Article
HANDGUNS
By Richard Harris
July 18, 1976
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meeting of all state and local handgun-control lobbies, in June 1975, to lead a
national coalition to lobby for gun control, Tells about how the N.C.C.H. lobbies
for gun control when Congressmen are up for re-election. The N.C.C.H. has set
up several committees which fight for gun control in different professional groups,
i.e. a Business for Handgun Control Committee. Argues against the N.R.A.'s
claim that gun control would disarm the citizenry, leaving them open to
Communist attack. The N.C.C.H. supports the weak gun-control bill now being
considered in the House.
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