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Gun-care sales mistakes: clean up your techniques--and profit!
Shooting Industry; 5/1/2007; Boyles, Carolee Anita; 787 words
; Most gun dealers don't sell enough gun-care products. Despite the enormous number of gun-cleaning and maintenance products available--and the good margins and repeat sales they offer--many gun shops neglect this segment of the market. This hurts your ...
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Voters take aim at gun issue
Chicago Sun-Times; 3/5/1998; Jon Schmid; 648 words
; Gun control has become a perennial election issue. Candidates ... keep guns out of the hands of criminals. The trouble is, many gun control laws seem only to affect law-abiding citizens. Even ... identification card, allowing the holder to purchase or own a gun. Downstate the number is much higher, at 15 ...
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Gun control forces dispute value of a ban on handguns
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/23/2000; ERIC LICHTBLAU AND RICHARD SIMON; 787 words
; Gun control forces dispute value of a ban on handguns Some argue ... Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, newly energized gun-control forces are grappling with a potentially critical split ... innovations in weapons safety, an increasingly vocal minority in the gun-control community is arguing that ...
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Gun shy. (On The Contrary).(firearm ownership and law)(Brief Article)
The American Prospect; 1/28/2002; Kaminer, Wendy; 787 words
; GUN SALES ARE SAID TO HAVE INCREASED DRAmatically since September ... disorder that further attacks might bring, the desire for a gun is not entirely irrational. So it's not surprising that Americans ... repression of dissent. But it's debatable whether an increase in gun purchases will protect people or ...
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GUN DEATHS DOWN - HOW TO CONTINUE THE TREND?(LOCAL)(Editorial)
The Virginian Pilot; 4/17/2001; 475 words
; Gun control and gun rights advocates both can trumpet the good news - and they should - that gun-related deaths are down nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 30,708 gun-related deaths in 1998, or 11.4 per 100,000 people. That figure was down 26 percent from 1993, ...
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Academics, not candidates, exchange fire on guns.(Features)(Work & Money)
The Christian Science Monitor; 10/30/2000; 713 words
; Gun violence costs Americans $100 billion a year. The more guns the public owns, the more homicides by gun. State laws permitting citizens to carry concealed guns do ... new studies by academics. In the presidential campaign, the gun issue has faded. Vice President Al Gore is not banging away ...
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Gun control fades to political background
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/23/2002; EUNICE MOSCOSO; 787 words
; Gun control fades to political background Issue isn't mentioned ... strategy plan for congressional races By EUNICE MOSCOSO Cox News Service Sunday, June 23, 2002 Washington -- A few years ago, Democrats were talking "common sense gun control" to anyone who would listen. After the Columbine ... leading up to ...
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Gun-control lobby runs out of ammo.(Nation)
The Washington Times; 10/2/2000; Scully, Sean; 787 words
; Gun control has largely fizzled as an election-year issue despite ... efforts by congressional Democrats, activists say. On the gun issue, the reason that we are losing is that we are being ... Schakowsky, Illinois Democrat and an advocate for stronger gun-control laws. It's that simple. . . . [Pro-gun ...
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Tough gun laws ignite political crossfire
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/11/2001; PAMELA FERDINAND; 787 words
; Tough gun laws ignite political crossfire Massachusetts requires ... empty cabinets and forlorn rifle displays, to Big Al's Gun and Sport Shop in southern New Hampshire, where wooden gun racks teem with firearms and shelves display stacks of ...
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State high court tosses suits against gun industry
Chicago Sun-Times; 11/19/2004; Frank Main; DAVE MCKINNEY; 757 words
; A Gun Lawsuit Report Card *First municipality to sue the gun industry: New Orleans, Oct. 30, 1998. *Municipalities that have sued the gun industry: 33. *Cases still alive: five, including Washington, New York; Cleveland; Gary, Ind., and 12 cities ...
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