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Show Al4__- The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, November1, 1998 NewOrl Orleans e Has Handgun Makersin Its Sights iCity files suit against industry, blamingit for costs of violence, including police time and medical expenses THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Following ithe example of the nationallegal jbattle against Big Tobacco, New “Orleanshasfiled a lawsuit to hold eithe handgun industry responsible ‘for the violence, police costs and smedical costs that plague it. Mayor Mare Morial’s lawsuit inst 15 gun manufacturers, five pawn shops and threefire- our community so vile andso heinousis thatit can be prevented,” emergencyservices, police pen- sions, medical care and lost tax said Morial, who added that he revenue related to handgun vio- lence hopesother cities will file similar lawsuits. The city contends the gun industry knew about “the unreasonable dangers of their guns” and failed to provide safety devices and warnings, Morial said gun makers have long known how to make weapons that can be fired only by owners. Examples of “smart-gun” technology include personalized gun locks, radio frequency systemsto So far this year, 147 of the 198 homicides committed in New Orleans involved handguns, Police Supt. Richard Pennington said. Last year, 222 of the city's 266 murders were. committed with arms trade associations makes handguns, and 291 of the 350 New Orleans thefirst government agencyto take on the gun industry {er failing to build weapons with volved handguns. The lawsuit, filed Friday in murders recorded in 1996 in- Oneofthe defendants, Bob Delfay, director of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute in Connecticut, said the lawsuit lacks reasoning. “For a suit to seek to collect damages from anindustry for not incorporating an unproven, virtually nonexistent technology seems Delfaysaid. Despite recent publicity about smart guns, such weapons are not ready for the marketplace, Delfay backwards,” said. N. Ireland Lawmakers Miss Deadline As Catholic ManIs Slain in Belfast THE ASSOCIATED FRESS BELFAST,Northern Ireland — Rival politicians missed thefirst important deadlineof their peace agreement Saturday, a day markedbythe killing of a Catho- lie man. Van driver Brian Service, 35, wasshot as he walked home alone near a Protestant area of Belfast. LocalCatholic residents andpoliticians blamed pro-British terrorists. 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