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: Re: The Supreme Court and the Morton Grove decision Message-ID: <291@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 12:11:35 EST Article-I.D.: gargoyle.291 Posted: Thu Jan 10 12:11:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:48:39 EST References: <245@gargoyle.UUCP> <259@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <> <268@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <> <274@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <> Reply-To: shallit@gargoyle.UUCP (Jeff ) Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 30 Summary: In article <> gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) writes: >> From the Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 3, 1983, >> lead headline, front page: >> >> "Handgun ban upheld" >> "Morton Grove law clears court" >> >> by Howard Witt >> >> "...Fewer than a dozen handguns have been voluntarily surrendered to >> Morton Grove police since the law took effect in February, 1982." > >Remarkable effectiveness, this new handgun law. >-- >Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam Your sarcasm notwithstanding, your remark demonstrates little but your ignorance. In this law, and several similar ones, the point is NOT to force people to turn in their handguns. Indeed, why would you do so BEFORE the Supreme Court ruled on its legality? The point is to halt the number of NEW handguns. And in this, the law WAS effective--I believe a gun store in Morton Grove was forced to relocate elsewhere. Also, you must realize that Morton Grove is a small town, with not much handgun ownership to begin with. Jeff Shallit