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Gun-Industry Leader Backs Clinton Bid for Settlement
9 December 1999
Wall Street Journal
The leader of the gun industry's main trade group voiced striking receptivity to the Clinton administration's desire to forge a settlement of municipal litigation against firearms makers and distributors.
But some individual gun-company executives, as well as the National Rifle Association, condemned the White House for threatening to file a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of 3,200 public-housing authorities.
During a broad-ranging news conference Wednesday in... (GunPolicy.org)