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Show WAR DECLARED ON FIREARMS Crusades against souvenir weapons wea-pons in the United States had a more determined ' parallel this week as Britain moved to round up nearly 100,000 illegally possessed pos-sessed fire arms and gave owners until March 31 to turn them in voluntarily. 'We don't want armed gangsters gang-sters in Britain," said Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, while the nation's police chiefs simultaneously mapped map-ped a campaign to curb a crime wave which had seen British law breakers turning to firearms for the first time in history. Crimes have been described as 'Chicago style." i i |