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Brady gun law marks 3rd anniversary
February 28, 1997Web posted at: 3:32 p.m. EST (2032 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The fight over the Brady gun law -- three years old on Friday -- is far from over. Later this year, the Supreme Court will rule on the anti-crime law's constitutionality. Several justices last year voiced doubts about requiring local police to check the history of prospective gun buyers.
The law is named after former White House Press Secretary Jim Brady, who was shot in the head and partially paralyzed in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan.
Brady said he believes the measure is working. In a live interview Friday on CNN he said, "186,000 people were denied the right to purchase a handgun. These were felons and other persons who should not have been allowed to own a handgun."
In the same interview his wife, Sarah, said that even if the Supreme Court overturns the law's background check provision, a five-day waiting period "will remain in place."
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