University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 28.1976
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Lawrence handgun sales steady; buyers seek variety, dealers say
By ROBERT MACKEY
Staff Writer
Gun dealers in Lawrence agree that sales of handguns have remained stable over the past two years and that students, though not much larger than their peers, can buy to buy many different kinds of handguns.
Pistols like this .357 magnum are powerful threats
Salesmen in three local stores where handguns are sold said Tuesday that the more expensive brands, Colt and Smith and Wesson, were the most popular.
Only one store, Gilman Discount Center,
225 Ish St., report selling less exp-
tended products.
Duane Morris, manager of Morris Sports,
1016 Massachusetts St., said he sold very few handguns and had never sold them to students.
John Gyllenburg, an employee at Gibson's, said most of his customers were in their mid-20s and bought mostly larger caliber handguns.
HOWEVER, GREGG Anderson, an employee at Ernst and Son Hardware, 828 Massachusetts St., said most of his customers who were students preferred the use of plastic type bundles, usually long-barreled, 22 caliber revolvers used for target shooting.
The most popular handguns at Gibson's are the 22 caliber and the .357 Magnum.
ANDERSON SAID that although many students bought hammers at 43rd and Son, and 67th Street, they were not able to buy them.
"Instead," he said, "they buy the western style as opposed to the police or detective style. They are most expensive toys."
Handgun prices at Ernst and Son range from $80 to $230.
At Gibson's, price range from $3 to $300. Anderson said the process for buying a car is straightforward.
**IF YOU'RE 21 and have a Kansas license, you can walk out of the door with your license.**
When a handgun purchase is made, the maker must complete a form with eight blank fields.
questions include whether the buyer has ever been convicted of a felony or uses dangerous drugs. The forms then are sent to the attorney's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
FEDERAL LAW prohibits the sale of a handgun to anyone convicted of a felony, who is dishonorably discharged from his military service or has citizenship or who is an illegal alien.
Anderson said he thought the questions were a "joke."
"If a man came in here obviously drunk, with fire in his eyes, I'd refuse to sell him a gun. However, if there's nothing suspicious, there's nothing we can learn do." be said.
Lt. Vernon Harrell of the Lawrence Police department said handgun sales weren't too low and that the law enforcement officials
Some people come in and give us the name of their guns, in case they are stolens.
He said that the number of assaults in Lawrence in which handguns were used was down from a year ago, but that he hadn't reached the exact amount of the decrease.
ASSAULTS ARE being committed more and more with "sharp instruments and other deadly weapons", Harrell said, because knives, steel bars and other are easier to conceal and also more likely to be available during a crime of passion.
He added that fewer people carried handguns than in the past.
"back in the '76s we had the riots, when they hired their houses without them," Harrell said.
City to seek federal funds for airport improvements
With the encouragement of the Federal Aviation Administration, city officials are preparing a preliminary application for expanding Lawrence Municipal Airport.
"But we are hopeful the application will be approved."
"After 'e' submit it, we should hear back from them in about 30 days or so," Wildgen said.
The application, being prepared by Bucher and Willis, consulting engineers from Kansas City, Mo., should be ready to submit to the FAA sometime next week, Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said yesterday.
If the grant is approved, the city could receive up to 90 per cent of the funds necessary to expand and improve the library. Another factor to determine the amount the city will ask for
J.J. Walker here Nov.13
J. W. Walker, star of the CBS television
series "The Inventor," perform Nov.
15 in the Kansas University Ballroom.
Thornton Mason, SUA concert committee chairman, said yesterday that Walker would do a monologue and might answer questions from the audience. Tickets will be
Mason said that Chris Fitz and Company, a promotion agent, had offered to bring Jimmi Spheris to campus Nov. 12, but that a contract hadn't been signed.
SUA had considered booking Frank Zappa, Dave Mason, and Asleep at the Bat.
The committee couldn't fit Asleep at the wheel because SUA had too many other candidates.
Hoch Auditorium would be too small for a Dave Mason and Frank Zappa concert, he said, but they couldn't draw enough people to Allen Field House to make a profit.
The city has debated the airport issue for 10 years. Although the majority of those involved seem to agree that improvements are necessary, funding has been the problem.
Two bond elections to finance improvements have been defeated by Lawrence voters, and it was the possibility of getting federal funds that brought the issue back to life earlier this month. City missioners authorized the application Oct. 5.
Tentative plans call for the present runways to be lengthened and widened for the construction of additional hangars. If the city receives the money, officials will have to negotiate with the Kansas University campus at the land on which the present airlines. The Endowment Association owns the land but leases it to the city for $1 a year.
However, the Endowment Association has indicated that it might be willing to sell the land to the city if funding becomes available.
If the grant is approved, the city will have to decide how to finance the match 10 per cent of the budget.
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Yearly panel on insurance is tomorrow
Horold Krogh, professor of business and
forum coordinator, said that this year's
form would center on a panel discussion on
product liability.
The School of Business will sponsor its annual insurance forum at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union
“It’s something that should be of interest to you,” he said, “since all of us have had experiences with products that worked disappointingly.”
The panelist for the forum include Ron
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The forum has been an annual event since its Insurance Development Fund was started in 1984. The group of insurance executives in 1987.
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