Handgun Law
Re “Clinton Calls Gun Control Law a Success,” June 22:
Why would the Clinton administration’s Justice Department simply reject handgun applications to felons rather than arresting the felon on the spot? It is a federal felony for a convicted felon to attempt to purchase a handgun. The U.S. Criminal Code, Title 18, Section 924 (the penalty section of the federal Gun Control Act) allows for a 10-year prison sentence per count. Trying to buy ammunition is another 10 years. Yet the Justice Department’s estimates show that it has had over 140,000 of these people in its grasp--and just let them go? Shame on them.
SCOTT JONES
North Hollywood
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