Show ft'wr V ' ff I I rw W The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday May13 2000 — Page 5 r shoots for smart guns WASHINGTON (AP) —TWdayi before the Million Mom March for gun control George W Bush said Friday he will distribute free trigger locks in Texas while President Clin- - ' ton announced grants to develop “smart gun" technology debate filling out the election-yeVice President A1 Gore acknowl- edged that he often voted with the National Rifle Association during his early years in Congress But he said they parted ways as he watched “the flood of cheap handguns and the wave of gun violence sweep across our country” Guns and politics took center stage as Clinton Bush and Gore sat down for interviews on morning television ar " WASHINGTON (AP) shows raising their voices on one of the most volatile issues of the campaign season Recent polls show voters split between Gore and Bush on whom they trust on gun policies Clinton dismissed Bush's trigger-loc- k giveaways saying the presumed Republican presidential nominee was simply trying to hide the fact that “the NRA will control policy" in the about my campaign the Texas gov-erpor said As for the NRA's influence Bush said “There's only going to be one person in the Oval Office and that's going to be me And I'm going to make judgments based upon how I think America can be a safer place” Gore meanwhile denied being a NRA member as Bush has claimed NRA the nation's most powerful gun ol lobby has led the fight against uncertain “I don't have any recollection of anything like that Have they told him something that I don't know about? 1 sure don't think so" Clinton talked about guns for more than an hour on ABC's “Good Morning America” first from the Oval Office and then in the Roosevelt White House if Bush wins The Room with an audience of women most of them supporters of SundayY march but also a few opponents The president briefly tangled with Susan Howard a NRA board mem- -' her who said Clinton “sent shivers up and down my spine” with one of his remarks She was referring to when Ginton talking about the death rate of children said “forget about the crimes just look at the accidental ’ But the vice president appeared gun-contr- proposals pushed by Clinton and Gore Bush said he considered Clinton's criticism good news “I must have them awfully worried for the president to be spending time talking rate” “You said 'Let's forget the crimes” Howard said gun : “No” Clinton interrupted in' “This is the way the NRA operates” Ginton shot back sense” makes -- halts all gun sales tion that will endorse and WASHINGTON oppose political candidates es that starting Monday she and other mothers “will take off our oven mitts and look at candidates very closely Shame on us if we do not keep it going” told a news conference that she expects the 'Million Mom March” organization would likely apply for a status that would allow for political activities while prompting social wel- -' ' ' ' afternoon because an internal imftware problem in the FBI criminal history database has temporarily halted instant background checks of gun buyers the FBI said Friday The FBI’s Interstate ldentifi-- : cation Index a database that has the criminal histories of 36 million people stopped work- -' ' ing late Thursday afternoon FBI and contractor employees expected to have it working again by Saturday evening or Sunday morning FBI : tax-exem- fare ' “There has been no grassroots movement” for gun control she said fit's all been done within the Beltway” the highway that encircles the capital and has come to symbolize the divide between Washington and the rest of the country 1- - r r I I will discourage partisan poli- -' tics by keeping political fig- urcs off the stage and focusing on individuals who will tell their personal stories of gun violence r Most of the participants said 150000 are expected on the National problem not the result of a hacking or external attack" Bresson said Without background check approvals gun dealers said : ' " i ( the scaffolding for the main stage of tlie Million Mom March on Friday on the National Mall in Washington would accept an invitation to designed to urge lawmakers to not want to steal the limelight hundred thousand at these sites her delegation's eception in approve licensing and registrafrom the organizers — most of around the country it ought to i ' tion of handguns them mothers who had not send a signal that we want Washington today ' The president didn't accept to be at been activists but were upset America to he a safe country “I just got an and common sense gun legisInstead he invited the Plain--J the White House” an excited about gun violence ? 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