GUN PLAY
AMERICA’S FAVOURITE PASTIME. DEPLORED BY CHIEF MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, May 2. (Received May 2, 9.5 p.m.) Chief Magistrate McAdoo, of New York, addressing the International Police Conference, said that the revolver “is the badge of the United States'. Americans are known as a gun-carrying and shooting nation. The ladies of America have new taken to the gun earnestly, and soon the bride will go to the altar with the family revolver strapped to her wrist. It is an open season for shooting men, and chivalrous juries acquit. We are getting to an unenviable situation, and our reputation is being smirched.” The British delegate explained the drastic measures that were taken in London, where two to ten years’ imprisonment was imposed on persons carrying firearms illegally.
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Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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135GUN PLAY Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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