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To the Editor: Like many Americans, I am afraid that waiting periods and background checks would delay but not prevent the purchase of handguns by criminals. It would be difficult to confiscate all the guns: 67 million handguns are owned by private citizens in the United States, and there are guns in 48 percent of U.S. households.¹ The cost of repurchasing all these guns would be high. Confiscation would raise constitutional issues, and in any case, guns can be hidden.

My proposal is to restrict the sale of handgun ammunition to shooting clubs, police, and the Secret Service. A legal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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