Mr. D'Amato has defended his approach as a necessary antidote to gun-related crimes.
The suit does not cite more current gun-related crimes.
But they are both symptoms of the same contagion of gun-related crime that has spread ever more rapidly from city to split-level suburb to farm town.
Yet the Swiss do not experience the United States' level of gun-related crime and school violence.
There have also been incidents of armed robbery in Maseru and an increase in gun-related crime.
In November 2006, Toews introduced a bill to toughen bail conditions for persons accused of gun-related crimes.
Philip expressed a preference for expanding this portion of the law to all gun-related crimes, not just safe retail zones.
A number of states have concluded that the solution to gun-related crimes is to allow everyone to carry a gun.
Reed believes we can, and must, do more to reduce gun-related crimes in America.
There were 62 gun-related crimes reported in the first five months of 1989.