USE OF PISTOLS

Southland Times, Issue 19897, 16 June 1926, Page 5

USE OF PISTOLS

YANKEE MAGISTRATE’S OUTCRY. NOT A SPORTING WEAPON. New York, June 14. The chief city Magistrate, Mr William McAdoo, in a letter speaking for the law officials throughout the country, asked Senators Moses and Butler to facilitate the passage of a Bill through the Senate prohibiting the sending of pistols through the mails. Mr McAdoo stated: “There are more people shot to death and wounded by pistols in the United States in one year than all the rest of the world. The pistol is not a sporting weapon. It is intended to kill and maim human beings or rob and intimidate them when in the hands of bandits and outlaws. There are more young outlaws in the United States between the ages of 16 and 26 whose aim is to get easy money through the pistol and motor-car than all the rest of the world. Numerous fortunes are made by mail order agencies selling pistols to negroes in some southern States who rent the pistols and pay for them on the instalment plan. They call it the “renting gun,” and most of them who go to the penitentiary reach there by the pistol route. —A. and N.Z.