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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION A7 Thursday, April 27, 2000 BYRICHARD SIMON preference in their purchases of police firearms to gun makers that adopt a groundbreaking code of conduct patterned after one signed last month by Smith & Wesson. Under that accord, Smith & Wesson has agreed to install trig: WASHINGTON — Seven major gun makers filed suit Wednesday seeking to stop a growing movement by government officials to force changes in the design and sale of firearms. The suit,filed in Atlanta federal ger locks, develop “smart guns’ that can be fired only by Sher owners, cut off shipments to dealers who refuse to toughen screen. ing of buyers and institute other court, accuses U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary An- reforms. Negotiations continue on drew Cuomo and officials of 16 state and local governments of an illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade against the firearms industry. “An anti-gun agenda does not said Robert Delfay, president of the National Shooting Sports Founda- tion, a Connecticut-based trade Thesuit seeks to block the federal Department of Housing and preferential buying program being pushed by President Clinton and heightens gun makers’ visibility in Urban Development and thestate But with thefiling of their lawsuit, the gun manufacturers are presenting a united and aggressive the preferential buying program the stakes in the battle over the andlocal governments from giving ciation — to lead the charge against government policies they oppose, said Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the Universityof California, Berkeley, and gun. policy expert. Cuomo,a leaderin the effort to gunviolence.” But the legal action ratchets up group that joined the gun makers as a plaintiff in the suit. ers — and the National Rifle Asso- new front in the gun-control de- gun makers to “distract from their failure to take responsibility for their share of the tragic problem of excuse anti-democratic behavior,” “Historically, the gun manufac. turers have kept an extraordinarilylow profile,” allowing gun own- concerns raised by Smith & Wesson about someof the pact’s terms. put economic pressure on other gun makers to embrace the code, dismissed the suit as an attempt by the debate. WU Dt To Su Gun Makers Sue GovernmentOfficials To Stop Effort to Force Design Changes bate, he said. The suit alleges that infringes on Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce. The plaintiffs, representing mostof the major U.S. gun manufacturers, include Glock Inc. and Beretta USA Corp., which are major suppliers of weapons to law enforcement. The other gun makers joining in the suit are Browning Arms, Colt’s Manufacturing Co., SIG Arms, Taurus International Manufacturing and Sturm, Ruger &Co. Zoo Shooting Suspect, 16, Charged as an Adult The boy, who remains in critical condition with a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -+ A 16-year-old boy accused of shooting seven chiltren at the National Zoo was charged Wednesdayas an adult. Antoine Bernard Jones, whopolice say is the son of aconvicted drug ringenforcer,is charged with assault with intent to commit murder while armed in the shooting of an 11-yeat-old boy. gunshot woundto the head, was wounded when Jones allegedly openedfire on a group of young people outside the zoo Monday,police said. Police have said the shooting stemmed from a quarrel between two groups of youths. 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