CHEAP PISTOLS CITED AS FREQUENT CRIME TOOLS.Byline: Greg Gittrich Daily News Staff Writer Confronted by a wave of strict gun laws that ban Saturday night specials Saturday Night Special A slang term used to refer to a surprise takeover attempt. Notes: The term alludes to the fact that many takeover bids are announced over the weekend in order to avoid too much publicity. , a notorious group of Los Angeles-area gun makers has quickly retooled to churn out larger caliber, deadlier weapons. The gun makers, congregated not far from downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , are producing medium-caliber handguns that meet safety guidelines of new gun control laws but still sell for the same low price. ``The companies are struggling economically and they are desperately seeking ways to survive,'' said Garen J. Wintemute, a public health professor at the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. . ``Unfortunately, they are clearly moving toward the production of medium-caliber, more deadly guns that sell for under $150,'' said Wintemute, who studies the links between these guns and crime. He dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the companies ``The Ring of Fire'' in 1994, taking the name from a crescent of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean. Handguns from these companies routinely top the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
But Jim Waldorf, the head of California's largest gun maker, Lorcin Engineering Co., defends its products, saying his firm simply offers what customers want to buy. ``We are filling a consumer demand and we operate within the law,'' he said. ``We sell more guns than most companies. It only makes sense that our guns will show up in traces more often.'' ``If these guns end up in the hands of juveniles or criminals then someone else is obviously doing something wrong. We don't do any advertising at all. We don't look to sell our product to juveniles or criminals. We strictly sell to wholesalers,'' he said. He describes his firm's 9 mm pistol as ``a very politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but gun that is more expensive and much bigger'' than the so-called Saturday night special handguns criticized by lawmakers. The 10-shot, 7.5-inch, 36-ounce weapon will continue to appeal to Lorcin's bargain-basement shoppers. The handgun retails for about $160, compared with the $600-to-$900 price tags on similar guns. No wonder Ring of Fire guns are 3.4 times as likely to be involved in a crime as handguns sold by other manufacturers, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Wintemute. The 9 mm and .380-caliber semiautomatic pistols produced by Lorcin ranked No. 1 and No. 8 on the ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites list. Similar inexpensive guns made by Bryco Arms placed third and ninth. ``They've reinvented the Saturday night special, making junk guns more powerful, more affordable,'' he said. |
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