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Hillary Clinton offers support for gun licensing bill; Lazio wraps up three-day bus tour

June 2, 2000
Web posted at: 6:51 PM EDT (2251 GMT)

NEW YORK -- U.S. Senate hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared at a Manhattan press conference on Friday to offer her support for a legislative proposal to license hand guns, just as her Republican rival, Rep. Rick Lazio, was winding up his three-day bus tour. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York), would require anyone who wants to purchase a gun to obtain a state-issued photo gun license.

Hillary Clinton offers support for gun licensing bill; Lazio wraps up three-day bus tour

"I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun," Clinton said. "I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry, such as Chuck is proposing."

Lazio opposes such licensing, and when asked why during a campaign stop at a Brooklyn day care center, he explained that he believed there are better alternatives.

"I just haven't seen a plan that I think is workable," he said. "I think if we have smart gun technology, which is now already developed, it's just a matter of bringing costs down so that it's economically feasible where you have only the person who owns the gun who can shoot the gun."

"There are a lot of things we can do from a technological standpoint that will be much less bureaucratic and much less evasive and will yield, I think, as least as good results if not better," he added. Lazio's campaign bus, dubbed the "Mainstream Express," was scheduled to return to his native Long Island on Friday afternoon, but not before making stops in the backyard of his Democratic opponent.

On Friday morning, Lazio read to pre-schoolers at the Brooklyn day care center before attending an evening campaign barbecue in his hometown of Islip, on Long Island.

The GOP hopeful is on his third full day of riding through the Empire State with his wife Patricia, since he was designated the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate at the state party's convention Tuesday in Buffalo.

The moderate Republican only declared his Senate candidacy on May 20, the same day New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced he would withdraw from the race to seek treatment for his recently diagnosed prostate cancer. Despite Lazio's late start on the campaign trail, the newly minted nominee has vowed he would prevail even if he had to take the race "block by block."

To that end, the four-term congressman took his campaign bus through a slew of small towns and Republican strongholds in upstate New York, before making stops in Westchester County, where Clinton has resided since January of this year, and New York City, the state's Democratic base.

He started his day on Friday by meeting with breakfast diners in Newburgh and visiting a school in Mamaroneck in Westchester County. He then rode into Manhattan, where he stopped for a pastrami sandwich at Katz's Deli -- the nation's oldest such establishment -- founded in 1888 on the lower East Side.

While Lazio was introducing himself to voters, the first lady was in Texas on Thursday attending campaign fund-raisers in Waco and Austin.

Lazio and Clinton have already begun sniping at one another through the media -- with Lazio claiming he is the true New Yorker and Clinton maintaining her campaign will be about "issues, not insults."

The two Senate rivals will participate in the same event for the first time Sunday, at the annual Salute to Israel parade in New York City.


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