By Harry Henderson
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50 caliber rifles, whose bullets can pierce light armored vehicles or puncture chemical storage tanks, perhaps causing a major fire or explosion. However, no such attacks have yet occurred, and it is uncertain whether single-shot heavy rifles would really be the choice of terrorists when weapons like car bombs are so easy to construct. Gun rights activists were not slow to adapt their own agenda to the war on terrorism. Against the opposition of many in the G. W. Bush administration and in Congress, airline pilots were authorized to apply for licenses to carry firearms in the cockpit.
As noted earlier, they also argue that guns save many lives by stopping crime and that any accounting of the social costs of guns would have to be balanced against the benefits of security and successful defense. However, there is another difference between the tobacco and gun industries: The tobacco industry has much more money for fighting legal battles. In the 1998 case Hamilton v. Accu-Tek, a Brooklyn jury found that 15 of the 25 gun makers sued by gun victims had some degree of negligence or liability, although only three had to pay actual damages.
It increased license fees and prohibited most sales of firearms or ammunition across state lines. All gun dealers now had to be licensed and had to record all sales of firearms or ammunition so that they could be traced by police. Maximum penalties were raised to $5,000 and imprisonment for five years. The Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 liberalized some of these requirements. Long guns (rifles and shotguns), but not handguns, could be sold across state lines. Guns and ammunition could be purchased through the mail subject to various restrictions.