Op-Ed: In Election Season, Mum’s the Word about Gun Control
12:05am Monday, February 04, 2008
By Don B. Kates Jr. Are this year’s U.S. presidential candidates avoiding the gun issue? Last week, San Francisco’s First District Court of Appeal struck down that city’s two-year-old law that confiscated all handguns and rendered all other guns useless by banning ammunition sales. And on March 9 of last year, a federal court of appeals invalidated District of Columbia laws that banned handguns...