He created the Department of Environmental Protection, supported anti-drug laws, supported anti-crime laws, and supported anti-discrimination laws.

The Legislature had found it much easier this spring to pass anti-crime laws that would directly affect criminals rather than legal gun owners.

He created his own anti-crime law which allowed "... the police broad authority to search premises, seize documents, investigate finances, and hold, for up to 30 days, people suspected of organized crime activity."

The state's legislators, spurred by a wave of widely publicized murders, have approved 1,100 new anti-crime laws in the last 15 years, topped by the three-strikes law last year.

Warren had begun his political career as a hard-fighting enforcer of anti-Communist and anti-crime laws.

The manufacture of this semiautomatic weapon was banned in the 1994 anti-crime law, but the weapon still can be sold.

In 1919, Rep. Dyer authored an anti-crime law that made transporting stolen cars across state borders a federal crime, to be prosecuted by federal law enforcement.

Nor did the contract directly challenge another major element of last year's anti-crime law - Mr. Clinton's pledge to put 100,000 additional police officers on the street.

Provisions in the Brady law and the 1994 anti-crime law give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms added power to regulate federally licensed firearms dealers.

The few White House initiatives on Capitol Hill - civil rights, transportation and the anti-crime laws - are under Democratic attack as no more than repackaged proposals rejected last year.