Empire Election
- National Review
"Giving Mrs. Clinton the benefit of the carpetbagger doubt, that is, and taking Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg as the other two--yes, it might come down to this," writes John Derbyshire. "Your choices for presidential candidate in November 2008 might be three gun-controlling, abortion-supporting, gay-friendly, illegal-immigrant-amnestying northeasterners, two of them high-tax, welfare-state, social-engineering, affirmative-action liberals."

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House OKs New Gun-Show Rules
- Times-Dispatch
The House of Representatives Sept. 26 passed an NRA-backed bill to revamp federal enforcement rules for gun dealers, born in part from complaints about BATFE agents` tactics at Richmond-area gun shows.

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Evidence Scant On Worth Of One-Gun Laws
- Philadelphia Inquirer
One-gun-a-month laws sound attractive to gun-control activists and draw broad public support in polls. But it`s not clear that such statutes have had much impact on gun violence. A study published last year in the journal Injury Prevention found that the laws restricting purchases had had no measurable impact.
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Bloomberg Is Guest Gun-Control Lobbyist
- New York Times-registration required
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the mayors of Philadelphia, Trenton and cities across Pennsylvania on Sept. 26 to lobby state lawmakers to approve a series of gun-control schemes.