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Gun Deal Struck.


The nation's biggest maker of handguns -- Smith & Wesson Smith & Wesson

U.S. gun manufacturer. The company has its roots in an 1852 partnership between Horace Smith (1808–93) and Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), who designed and marketed a lever-action, repeating magazine handgun that held a self-contained cartridge.
 -- agreed to dozens of once-unthinkable safety and marketing restrictions aimed at ending lawsuits filed by the city of Los Angeles
For the city, see Los Angeles, California.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad.
 and other government entities.

The settlement is a landmark victory for gun control advocates trying to keep firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants.

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 out of the hands of children and criminals. It frees Smith & Wesson from millions of dollars in potential liability from lawsuits attempting to hold gun makers responsible for carnage caused by their weapons.

The gun maker agreed to about 80 reforms, such as putting trigger locks on all its handguns, making gun grips too big and triggers too powerful for young children to fire, and developing "smart" technology that would allow only an authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal  to fire a gun.
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Title Annotation:Smith & Wesson agrees to restrictions
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Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 27, 2000
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