AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.
[Reuter Telegrams.] PISTOLS MENACE. NEW YORK. June 14. The chief city magistrate. William .McAdoo, in a letter, speaking for the law officials throughout the country, asked Senator Moses and Senator Butler to facilitate the passage ol a Bill through tlie Senate prohibiting the sending of pistols through the mails, Mr McAdoo stated that there were more people shot to death and wounded by pistols in the United States in one year than in all the rest of the world. The pistol was not a sporting weapon. It was intended to kill and maim human beings, or to rob and intimidate them when in the hands of bandits and outlaws. There were more young outlaws in the United States between the ages ol 15 and 2d, whose aim, was to get easy money through the pistol and the motor car than there were in all the rest of the world. Numerous fortunes were made by mail order agencies in selling pistols. The negroes in some of the southern states rented ..pistols, and paid for them on the instalment plan. They called it renting a gun, and most of them who went to the penitentiary reached there by ‘ the pistol route.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1926, Page 2
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202AMERICAN CABLE NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1926, Page 2
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