Gun Policy News, 5 January 1998
Arms Cache Seized in Greece, American Woman Arrested
5 January 1998
Associated Press
SALONICA, Greece — Police seized an arsenal of rifles, grenades and dynamite while searching a pig sty on an American-born woman's farm in northern Greece.
Ballistic experts planned to examine the weapons, believed to have been smuggled from Albania, for connections to killings or robberies in Greece, authorities said Sunday.
Police said Ms. Donna Wilkins-Kaltsas, 41, was sleeping with a machine gun at her side when officers burst into her farm house in Dion, about... (GunPolicy.org)
Government to Seek Family-Violence Policy
5 January 1998
Jerusalem Post (Israel)
JERUSALEM — The cabinet yesterday accepted a proposal by Communications Minister Limor Livnat to establish an interministerial team, in cooperation with the Knesset Committee on the Advancement of the Status of Women, to examine how to increase cooperation among the various organizations dealing with family violence involving weapons.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the recent spousal murders "a spreading plague; we must do everything in our power to reduce... (GunPolicy.org)
Concern Over Handgun Violence Reflected in State-wide Phone Poll
5 January 1998
Post-Crescent (Wisconsin)
MILWAUKEE — Laws that would treat handgun violence as a product safety issue won widespread support in a public opinion poll.
But the survey, by the Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee, also found that state legislators do not seem interested in considering the issue. Lawmakers also were far more likely than the general public to believe that new safety laws for handguns could restrict the constitutional right to bear arms.
The random telephone survey asked 600... (GunPolicy.org)