He stopped making movies for many years, returning to Broadway in protest at Warner Bros. letting someone else edit his 1958 film The Left Handed Gun.

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Dershowitz said Americans who want even-handed gun policy should not leave the arguments up to gun advocates such as the National Rifle Association and Jones without speaking up themselves.

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Wise handed the gun to Hubbard, who also worked the slide and dry-fired.

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Prosecutors say that Mr. Ward's friend drove down an alley and handed him a gun, and Mr. Ward sneaked up to the group.

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The prosecution also alleges the defendant handed Mr Duggan the gun in a shoebox, 12 to 15 minutes before he was shot and that the box bore the fingerprints of Mr Duggan, Mr Hutchinson-Foster and his girlfriend Desire Cox.

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But champions of gun control were handed a defeat when on Tuesday, in Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state's ban on carrying a weapon in public is unconstitutional.

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This country has a strong tradition of gun ownership that's been handed down from generation to generation.

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Positioning of buttons and thumb-sticks have also been adjusted in order to create a more comfortable gun for both right and left handed users.

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But later he admitted he did own the gun, telling officers it had been handed down to him by his father.

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