On April19, 1999, 7-year-old Nafis Jefferson was shot and killed with a .44-caliber revolver, a Rossi Model 720, while playing with friends along a street in his South Philadelphia neighborhood. Children found the gun stashed under an abandoned car parked along the street. One of the children, also a 7-year old boy, picked up the gun and fired it, hitting Nafis in the head. Nafis died six hours later at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

This is an excerpt from a press release on 4/17/2001 (www.gunlawsuits.org).

Our world today has altered immensely since the days of Adam. It is a perfect example of the maxim "survival of the fittest.'' Due to the captivating media, the revolutionary Internet and the cutthroat competition for winning the rat race, human contact is diminishing rapidly.

The center to prevent handgun Violence filed a suit on 18/4/2001 against Amadeo Rossi manufacturers and others who were involved with the sale and distribution of the weapon. The lawsuit contends that the weapon possessed inadequate safety measures and that the gun was illegally distributed.

The question arises will this measure bring Nafis back to life? Will this alleviate Tennille Je

3. The secondary and private sales market

Another loophole in the sale of guns is the private and secondary market. In a private transaction there is no requirement of a background check. This makes such transactions attractive to criminals, juveniles and psychopaths. The Federal and State law enforcement officials of Maryland have also testified that straw purchasers and secondary sales are a major problem in controlling gun violence (www.handguncontrol.org/facts).

The major impediments in exercising gun control are the following:

1. N.R.A's stance on the manufacturing, ownership and distribution of guns.

2. The fallacy of the Second Amendment.

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