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EXPAND THE HANDGUN BAN? STUDY DRAWS FIRE
guns December 23, 1998 Web posted at: 4:28 p.m. EST (2128 GMT)
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CHICAGO (CNN) -- It's legal in the United States for a person convicted of a misdemeanor to buy a handgun. But, according to a study being challenged as flawed, such purchasers are more likely than those without a criminal record to commit a crime and should be barred from buying handguns, just as felons are.
The study was published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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