Posted on 11/07/2005 6:15:45 AM PST by boris
PROFILE | SAYRE WEAVER
By Sandy Banks, Times Staff Writer
It's hard to imagine Sayre Weaver as the California gun lobby's Public Enemy No. 1. Slight and soft-spoken, the Yale-educated attorney doesn't march or testify or legislate.
She litigates. Relentlessly. With a laser-sharp focus that has delivered a series of body blows to an industry long accustomed to beating back efforts at gun control.
For 10 years, Weaver has been working to staunch the flow of "Saturday night specials" cheap handguns that cost less than a good pair of sneakers and are the weapon of choice in the criminal milieu.
In 1996, she helped West Hollywood officials draft and defend California's first local ordinance aimed at curtailing handgun sales. That success, despite a well-funded challenge by the gun industry, emboldened dozens more cities to tighten limits on weapons sales, making California a national leader in restricting handgun access.
"These are guns that have no legitimate sporting purpose," says Weaver, who lives in La Habra Heights and practices in Brea. "The gun lobby had bamboozled everybody" into believing that restrictions violated constitutional protections.
"But there are all sorts of ways to regulate firearms dealers, in the same sort of way you regulate liquor stores: You have to operate out of a business district, you have to have a local license, you have to provide security measures, you can't have minors in your store without an adult .
"It's not an issue of putting them out of business but raising their level of responsibility....
For her efforts, Weaver, legal director of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, was among three activists honored in San Francisco last month by the California Wellness Foundation with its 2005 Peace Prize for violence prevention.
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"For 10 years, Weaver has been working to staunch the flow of "Saturday night specials" cheap handguns that cost less than a good pair of sneakers and are the weapon of choice in the criminal milieu."
"Saturday night specials" are the cheap firearms that the poor use to defend themselves; no self-respecting crook would have anything less than a Glock, which are not "cheap" by any reckoning.
Study after study has shown that criminals want the very best tools they can get.
PS: It must really annoy Weaver that, after 10 years of her best efforts, the tide is turned against her, and the recent federal law protecting legitimate arms manufacturers and dealers is about to put her out of business.
Lying lawyer scum that she is.
Inexpensiev handguns are also the weapon of choice for law-abiding poorer citizens who can't afford more expensive pieces.
She is obviously a racist.
What an ellitist snob! Possibly even racist to boot. So poor people shouldn't be able to afford the tools necessary to protect themselves?
This whore needs to find another line of work.
Let's do a little thought experiment. Which one would have received more respect during colonial times, a guy that crafted good reliable guns, or a guy that sat in court all day flapping his gums in an attempt to abridge the rights of other people? Hmm, the gunmaker, you say. Case closed, throw Ms. Weaver out of court. She is fined court costs and opposing attorney's fees for taking up our time.
it's the Goldilocks theory of gun control:that's too small, that's too big, that's too powerful...leaving you with one that's juuuuuuuust right.(ie a spitball)
California doesn't have a gun lobby. If we did, we'd would be on par with real states for firearms rights. Can anyone honestly see this twit getting any kind of airtime in Texas? Nope, no anti-gun bias here...
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