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Personal Injury & Torts

Jan. 14, 1999

Gun Makers Find Themselves Caught in Law's Cross Hairs

SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999. Guns were public-safety enemy No. 1 among Democrats campaigning for California's highest offices in 1998, and gun control is high on the Capitol's agenda now that Gray Davis is governor, Bill Lockyer is attorney general and Democrats have a wider majority in the Legislature than last year.

^^Lockyer's Choices, Page 13
Legal Challenges, Page 13^^
By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999.
        Guns were pub...

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