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  • Gun Buyers Choose Compact Weaponry

    Gun dealers are choosing to manufacture and market small handguns in light of recent legislation allowing concealed weapons. Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia all passed laws permitting the use of concealed weapons.

    Tags: Guns; Crime

    By Mark Johnson

    Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)

    1995

  • High Noon in Baghdad

    CNN assembled a timeline of the seven-year game of hide-and-seek between the U.N. weapons inspectors and Saddam Hussein. Interviews include Scott Ritter, the American marine Iraq accused of being a CIA spy. Ritter denied those charges and detailed his understanding of Iraq's so-called "concealment mechanism", allegedly used to hide weapons of mass destruction and vital know-how.

    Tags: TAPE

    By John Fielding;Graham Messick

    CNN (Atlanta)

    1998

  • Armed and Dangerous?

    All across the country, state legislatures are making it easier for their citizens to carry concealed weapons. In Tennessee more than 32,000 people have gun permits. Often these permits require a safety course, but Williams' investigation discovered that state-certified instructors were willing to cheat on those safety classes.

    Tags: TAPE

    By Phil Williams

    WKRN-TV (Nashville, Tenn.)

    1997

  • New Support for Concealed Weapons

    U.S. News & World Report details a growing movement advocating the liberalization of concealed-weapons laws, which would allow any individual to carry a hidden gun.

    Tags: Law enforcement NRA Firearms gun laws legislation SWARM Safety for Women and Responsible Motherhood Colorado

    By Gordon Witkin

    U.S. News & World Report

    1994

  • No title (id: 9814)

    Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune reveals how problems in the system of issuing concealed weapons permits has allowed dozens of felons and other violent criminals to legally carry such weapons, Jan. 10, 1993.

    Tags: FL Hill 6 pages

    By None

    Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Fla.)

    1993

  • No Mas

    Houston Press reports on youth-on-youth violence, and finds guns have made the problem much more deadly; profiles a group of Latino mothers who have banded together to reverse the growing gun culture among youth in Houston's Hispanic neighborhoods; looks at a bill working its way through the Texas legislature that would allow Texas residents to obtain licenses to carry loaded and concealed weapons, Feb. 25, 1993.

    Tags: TX Sieber Satterwhite Grief

    By Ann Walton Sieber

    Houston Press

    1993