Tuesday • May 2, 1995
The Battalion • Page 5
Concealed handgun bill expects
tough time in House debate
□ Representatives plan
to increase restrictions
on legal carriers.
AUSTIN (AP) — Republican
lawmakers today endorsed a bill
that would allow Texans to carry
concealed handguns as the House
prepared to debate the measure.
The bill, which already has
passed the Senate, was expected
to win House approval. Gov.
George W. Bush has said he
would sign it into law.
The House Republican Cau
cus pledged to fight any efforts
to change the measure.
“We are going to work very
hard to keep any amendments
off the bill today that’ll weaken
Texans’ right to protect them
selves and their families,” said
Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland,
GOP chairman.
The measure would allow eli
gible Texans to obtain licenses
to carry concealed guns. Applb
cants would have to be legal
Texas residents; at least 21
years old;
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have been
convicted of a felony;
have not been delinquent
in making a child support pay
ment; and not be chemically de
pendent or of unsound mind.
They also would have to un
dergo 10 to 15 hours of training
and pass a proficiency exam. A
four-year permit would cost $140.
“There are some people who
just still don’t understand why
law-abiding citizens should be
able, with proper training, with
proper background checks, to be
able to get a license to protect
themselves and their families
from the criminal predators on
our streets today,” said Rep. Bill
Carter, R-Fort Worth, House
sponsor of the bill.
The House version differs
slightly from the Senate bill. For
example, the House bill adds
hospitals and restaurant bars to
a list of places where carrying
guns would be prohibited.
Several Democratic represen
tatives have said they plan to try
to increase training hours and ex
pand the list of places where li
censees could not carry guns.
Others plan to seek to make the
bill a referendum, allowing Tex
ans to vote on the issue.
Supporters of the bill have said
it would allow law-abiding citi
zens to protect themselves, but
opponents say the measure would
make the streets more dangerous.
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Four month cease-fire ends in Bosnia
□ Neither side appears prepared to
extend the peace, U.N. envoys say.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Mor
tar shells slammed into Sarajevo and gunfire
crackled down “Sniper Alley” Monday as Bosnia’s
combatants watched a widely ignored truce expire
and geared up for more war.
Special U.N. envoy Yasushi Akashi was forced
to admit that two days of talks failed to convince
either the Bosnian government or rebel Serbs to
renew a four-month cease-fire.
The sides “are, at this point, not prepared to ex
tend it,” Akashi admitted before heading to Zagreb
to deal with heavy fighting in Croatia. The Bosnia
truce, brokered in December by former U.S. presi
dent Jimmy Carter, expired Monday.
Several mortar shells slammed into a residen
tial area of Sarajevo Monday evening and gunfire
was intense along “Sniper Alley," the perilous
road that is the capital’s main east-west route.
Bosnian Serbs entered a weapons collection site
in the western suburb of Ilidza and prepared
tanks for battle, said U.N. spokeswoman Maj.
Myriam Sochacki. About 30 Ukrainian peacekeep
ers were blocked inside because Serbs laid mines
just outside the site.
It was the second time in two days that Serbs
entered weapons collection sites.
U.N. peacekeepers guard various points in and
around Sarajevo where the Serbs deposited their
heavy guns to comply with a weapons-free zone
declared around the city in February 1994 and en
forced by threat of NATO airstrikes.
But the Serbs can enter the sites virtually at
will, and often have removed guns or simply fired
them from the sites.
For months, U.N. officials and diplomats have
been warning of the specter of widespread war in
the Balkans if international efforts to secure a
peace failed.
Underscoring such fdars, neighboring Croatia
woke up Monday to the worst fighting seen since
its 1991 war of secession from Yugoslavia.
Croatian government troops launched offen
sives on three fronts against rebel Serbs who hold
one-third of Croatian territory.
Rebel Serbs in Bosnia claimed that Croatian
troops had shelled two Serb-held towns on Bosni
a's northern border with Croatia. Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic threatened to help his
Serb brethren in Croatia.
U.N. officials reported increased fighting between
Bosnian Serb and government forces near a vital
corridor in northeastern Bosnia, but had no details.
That corridor connects Serb-held regions of Croatia
and western Bosnia with Serb holdings in eastern
Bosnia and Serbia proper.
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