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Show FORD OPPOSES GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION President Ford has given the Nation's 40 -million firearms fire-arms owners strong assurances assur-ances that he "will oppose any attempts to deprive law-abiding law-abiding citizens of their traditional tra-ditional freedom to own fire -, arms." The strong statement from President Ford, who in the past has given support to some form of so-called "Saturday Night Special" legislation, "clearly indicates indi-cates that the views of firearms fire-arms owners and hunters are making a considerable positive impact," said Hal-sey, Hal-sey, editor of American Rifleman. "And we willcon-tinue willcon-tinue in making that considerable con-siderable impact on American Ameri-can politics and in the Congress." Con-gress." "I believe in punishing only those who commit crimes. I am unalterably opposed op-posed to the Federal registration regis-tration of guns or the licensing licens-ing of gun owners. It has been my long-held belief that these measures would be futile in attempting to stop the crimi- |