A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING: LAWYERS, ADS, STOCKS AND PROFANITY

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Thursday, March 23, 2000

Plaintiffs' lawyers take aim at democracy: In a brute triumph for litigation force and a grim setback for democratic governance, the Clinton administration and lawyers for city governments bullied the nation's largest gun maker, Smith & Wesson, into agreeing to a variety of controls on the distribution of its products that the administration hadn't been able to obtain through the normal workings of legislation. Glock and other gun makers appear likely to follow.

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