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Show 18 tfmandpurshotgunsFf?es in fiinS- Tbe Salt Lake Tilbune, Sunday, May V, 197? gurs, ian hands in the Ui ited States in 19t8. Is tins not a dangerous th,rg7 Woud it not be bctlr to restrict guns as they are in National Rifle Assn. Powerful Lobby Against Gun Controls By William MuGaffin Chicago Daily New? W liter WASHINGTON of the National The Rifle Assn. tc stir up opposition to a ivone proposing gun control legislation is deeply respected on Capitol Hill. One senator summed up the reaction of many of his legislative colleagues when he said that we would "rather be a deer in hunting season than n pchttcirn v.uo ,,as wwu.c tne ire of the NRA and its followers. The organization lias come a long way since 1871 when it was founded by National Guard officers to improve the marksmanship of its mem-be- i pouer s Now (iun Lobby Today, it is recognized as the leading spokesman of the gun lobby. And it carries such influence with Congress that it succeeded for four years of after the assassination Bus Drivers President John F. Kennedy In swinging enough votes to pre vent passage of strong gun control legislation. It was not until '908, when Martin Luther King and Rob-e- it F. Kennedy were assassinated, that the NRA suffered a but qualified significant defeat. On June 6, the day Kennedy died, Congress cleared the omnrbus Crime Control and Safe Streets Acc. bear arms. 18 FRANCISCO (AP) -Inegotiations Saturday produced some movement tow aid staving off an Mi ike by Giey hound bus rimers, said a fedeial mediator, but four economic issues pose a "real stumbling block. Jerry Finley, mediating the dispute between Giey hound ami the Amalgamated Transit , Union, said some progress had been made in secondary such as working conissues ditions but that little had been accomplished on the primary issues, which are economic. He declined to specify the issues. d The ATU has yarned its 4,500 drivers, terminal employes and office workers will walk off their jobs at 7 p.m. next Tuesday unless an agieement is reached. The transit union's old contract expired March 15 but negotiations continued and there was no talk of a stiike until last week. A walkout also would idle 7(H) teamsters and machinists, Finley said. Union and Greyhound representatives held their last formal talks May 11, Finley said, and agreed to resume on the eve of the walkout. SAN nformal Giey-houn- "Bet Common Cauw and a lot of other organizations oo the same thing we do, savs Jark Hess, director of NRA puulic relations. The reporter who drops in 1 talk to him after attempted assassination the to of Alahdma Gov. George C. Wallace finds him complacently expounding the NRA line. Is it not a bad thing to have so many guns around?" he was asked. No," he replied. "A gun is golf club People get killed with golf clubs, too. The National Commission on the Ca .sej and Prev ention that of Violence reported there were an estimated 90 a tool. Just like a Japan? "If someone is bent on murof der, he'll find another way Hess reaccomplishing it, do it by "in they Japan, plied. beatings What about the man who gof ITaRaee? "if this man had It In tnird Im sure he would have found another weapon. He was within knife thrust." Finally, Hess argued tha guns are used in less than 3 percent of all violent crimes But he reluctantly agreed that when measuied on murdeis alone, guns play a far largei role. According to the FBI. guns were used In 63 percent cf the murders in 1968. to kill him, rrt'Z.'Z'iC A 9 4, vNmA AmPUS, SHOP A DOUBLE KNITS WITH GIVE AND TAKE Boys Siic S to 12 12.00 Young Men Waists 25 to 30 14.00 later, the repeal of . gun control law. An editorial urging this, carried in the April issue of the NRA To Contract I to its own - MnMn Slack Inter- prohibited state sale or shipment to individuals of handguns. It did not, however, impose controls on rifles, shotguns and ammunition. On June 15, the NRA called on it members to write their senators and representatives to oppose additional laws. Congtess, however, extended the prohibitions to rifles, ammunition. .shotguns and But It refused to provide for licensing of owners and registration of guns. President had B. Johnson Lyndon but the NRA requested It successfully opposed It. Works for Repeal the erima'e, 1 the lar bill, aceoidng Working through the magazine, and through bulletins it sends out to members analyzing gun control laws, it can generate up to a 500,000 letters in opposition to a particu Handgun Curbs Tlas Now, four years NRA is working for Closer citizen "the right to keep and - civil- Farah flares that give witn bending, stretching and every kind of movement . . . and take a lot of punishment without losing their shape or good looks. 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