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USA TODAY « TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1991 - bA 

"WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD 

Gun bill gains support in Senate 
  

  

How the plans differ 
How Senate Democrats’ anti-crime measure compares 
with Bush administration's proposal: 

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Democrats: Limits prisoners to one federal court petition, 
provided they have been given adequate legal counsel to 
do so. Also reverses Supreme Court rulings that restrict 
prisoners’ opportunities to raise new claims. 
Bush: Imposes tighter limits on appeals; extends Supreme 
Court limits on successive petitions, only claims raising 
doubts about a prisoner's factual guilt would be permitted. 

RULES OF EVIDENCE 

Democrats: Writes into law Supreme Court decisions al- 
lowing use of illegally obtained evidence if police acted in 
‘good faith” on a search warrant that proved defective. 
Bush: Extends the ‘good faith” exception to warrantless 
searches. 

GUN CONTROL 

Democrats: Imposes a seven-day waiting period for hand- 
gun purchases. Bans four types of domestic assault-style 
semiautomatics. : 
Bush: No comparable gun-control provision, but increases 
mandatory penalties for possession of firearms by felons 
and for use of semiautomatics in drug-related or other vio- 
lent crimes.     

By Richard Wolf 
USA TODAY 

A seven-day waiting period 
for handgun purchases is gain- 
ing momentum in the Senate 
as private talks resume today 
in search of a compromise. 

The negotiations — involv- 
ing Majority Leader George 
Mitchell, D-Maine, and Minor- 
ity Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan. 
— indicate both sides remain 
uncertain if they can win a Sen- 
ate majority. 

But some senators previous- 
ly viewed as undecided are 
prepared to announce support 
for the waiting period. Others 
once opposed are now undecid- 
ed. And ex-president Ronald 
Reagan is urging GOP senators 
to support the waiting period. 

At issue: the House-passed 
Brady bill, named after former 
White House press secretary 
James Brady, who was shot 
during the 1981 assassination 
attempt on Reagan. 

Mitchell's version — calling 
for required background 

checks and federal aid to 
speed the conversion toa na- 
tional computerized network in 
which those checks could be 
performed in minutes — is 
part of a broader crime bill. 

Mitchell reiterated Monday 
his willingness to compromise, 
but Republican offers for a 
five-day waiting period and a 
phaseout after about two years 
were rejected by Democratic 
negotiators last week. 

_ The talks are expected to re- 
sume today as the debate turns 
to the federal death penalty — 
a less controversial issue after 
agreement Monday between 
the White House and Senate 
Democrats on authorizing capi- 
tal punishment for more than 
50 federal crimes. 

The two sides remain divid- 
ed on banning certain semiau- 
tomatic weapons, limiting 
death sentence appeals and 
permitting evidence seized 
without a warrant into court. 

Republicans have sought a 
compromise on handgun con- 
trol so traditional opponents 

could vote for the politically 
popular measure — and be- 
cause the waiting period ap- 
pears to be gaining ground. 

“A lot of people would like to 
vote for Brady if they would 
make it a little better,” Dole 
told reporters. 

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, 
who argued vehemently 
against the waiting period last 
week as an infringement on 
hunters and fishermen, con- 
ceded, “They have the votes.” 

Barring a compromise, Re- 
publicans still could seek to re- 
place Mitchell’s handgun-con- 
trol measure with their own, or 
stage a filibuster — forcing 
Democrats to come up with 60 
of 100 votes. 

Sarah Brady, chairwoman of 
Handgun Control and wife of 
the bill's namesake, wants to 
shelve the private talks and go 
for a public victory on the Sen- 
ate floor. But key senators con- 
sider that approach a gamble. 

Said Mitchell spokeswoman 
Diane Dewhirst: “He doesn’t 
know if he has the votes.”  



 



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