Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!gargoyle!shallit From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Handgun Control, Inc. Message-ID: <270@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 17:11:29 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.270 Posted: Thu Jan 3 17:11:29 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 05:07:05 EST Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 29 Several people have asked me about the organization Handgun Control, Inc., so I am posting some information about it. It was started by Pete Shields, a former hunter and gun owner, after his son was shot to death by one of the so-called "Zodiac" killers in San Francisco. He studied firearms legislation and decided that an effective national gun control law would be a good thing. It currently has about a million members. It is "a non-profit citizen's organization working to pass federal law to keep handguns out of the wrong hands." You can get more information by writing Handgun Control, Inc. 1400 K Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005 or calling (202) 898-0792. Ask for their brochure, "Handgun facts". Another organization working towards similar goals is the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. If anyone is interested, I will also post their address. /Jeff Shallit University of Chicago