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Limit Ammunition To Control Hand Guns

Limit Ammunition To Control Hand Guns the proposal to ban ammunition. "Several
April 30, 1975 hundred thousand" replies have flooded
Those who would ban hand guns might well in.
consider the old riddle: "Which comes Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court may
first, the chicken or the egg?" decide the issue.
A few cities have adopted legislation While hand guns can be manufactured and
prohibiting pistols, revolvers and the smuggled easily, the production of
so-called "Saturday Night Specials" in a bullet-quality gunpowder requires highly
effort to halt the soaring crime rate. developed technology.
So far, the effort has been like trying In addition, the manufacture of a shell
to empty the ocean with a tea spoon. The casing requires a large, expensive,
next town over sells cheap weapons, and highly accurate stamping press. Only a
no questions asked. very few factories, in the United States
Congress, therefore, seems about ready to are capable of making primer shells which
consider the controversial proposal sportsmen sometimes fill with
seriously. Certainly only a nation-wide commercially manufactured gunpowder.
ban has any chance to be effective. In short, there are only a few sources of
I support hand gun legislation, but supply for powder and shells. The supply
oppose attempts to curtail shoulder guns. should be relatively easy to regulate.
Pocket guns, capable of being concealed, Cut off the supply of ammunition, and
are short range weapons of surprise and hand guns will rust into quaint
vengeance. Rifles, however, are carried souvenirs.
openly. They are useful for sport and Rifle-calibre ammunition could continue
defense against armies of invasion. to be made available readily in hardware
Gun control is impractical simply because and sports stores.
of the ease with which hand guns can be Revolver-calibre cartridges, however,
built, transported and concealed. could be furnished only to the military
Which brings us to the chicken and egg and law enforcement authorities. Those
puzzle. with a legitimate need for revolver
Exactly three years ago in this column, I shells for their freely-owned - but
suggested that we give up trying to limit registered - hand guns would have to
the gun and approach the problem through obtain them from the police after
the more vulnerable route of ammunition. positive identification and finger
Gun control advocates dismissed the idea printing. Purchases might be limited to
as "simplistic." The late Congressman five shells, and empty shells could be
Frank Bow circulated the column to a few returned for replacement.
gun-control legislators but got an Thus, those citizens genuinely needing a
indifferent reaction. hand gun for protection or other
Now comes an Illinois citizens' group legitimate needs would not be denied an
called the Committee for Handgun Control, "equalizer".
Inc., which is seeking to force the US. Criminals, of course, would still obtain
Government to ban the sale of hand gun both pistols and ammunition from abroad
ammunition as a means of controlling or from other criminal sources. Yet, we
cheap hand guns. must try to control hand guns SENSIBLY
The group has petitioned the new federal even if the odds are as hopeless as they
Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban seem to be.
ammunition on grounds it is hazardous, In controlling hand guns we must be
and that the commission has jurisdiction careful that we don't simply disarm the
over hazardous substances. citizen while leaving weapons in the
This is the hand gun committee's second hands of gangsters.
attempt to force the commission. A year Also, we must not abrogate our
ago the commission ruled that banning constitutional right to "keep and bear
ammunition would amount to a "back door" arms." The way the world is going these
ban on hand guns, a direct violation of days, this right may not be as obsolete
law that established the commission. and academic as the gun control
Nevertheless the hand gun committee has enthusiasts would have us believe.
won a court suit requiring the commission Ammunition is the weak link in the chain
to reconsider, which it is now doing. of fire-arm use. Break it and we stop
Two months ago the product safety wanton shooting by citizens and criminal
commission asked the public to comment on alike.




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