The Nation - News from July 9, 1985
Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and a coalition of police officials joined forces against handgun legislation that Metzenbaum called “a guns-for-criminals bill.” The liberal Metzenbaum and other senators are opposing a bill, strongly supported by the National Rifle Assn. and the Administration, that would amend the Gun Control Act of 1968 by lifting the existing ban on the interstate sale of handguns. The ban was enacted in the wake of the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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